All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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