Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSGod guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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