We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLiterature 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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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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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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