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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.

William Butler Yeats

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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

King Life Live Slave Sleep Soul Spiritual
Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Nature Rose Sweet Time World Yourself
In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beginning Dreams Responsibility
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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Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
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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Meaning Poetry Right Word
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Best Logic Mindset People Philosophy Starve
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Conscience Deep Greatness Intellectual Life Myself Mystery Revolution Soul Spiritual Thinking Voice Writing
An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Hate Intellectual One Liner Worst
Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Angel Dance Flame Mountain Ride World Yourself
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Experience Literature Man Personal Ready Vision
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
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Close Key Uncertain

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.

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