It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTake, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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