We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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