What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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