It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWords are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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