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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.

William Butler Yeats

Words 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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Meaning Poetry Right Word
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Business Head Heart World
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Company Friendship Rest Yourself
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Beautiful Myself Old Water
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Sex Soul Tragedy Virgin
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Discipline Love Myself Perspective
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
Myself I must remake.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Build Improvement Myself Transformation
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Cry Explanation Teaching
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Dreams Feet Myself Poor
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Death Life Preparation Spiritual
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 YEATS

Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Best Logic Mindset People Philosophy Starve
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Brief Joy Knowledge Time Tragedy

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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