Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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