By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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