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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats

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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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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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!
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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