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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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 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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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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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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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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