I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSRose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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