Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Myself I must remake.
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