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 YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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