The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSFrom our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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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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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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