People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEcstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Myself I must remake.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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