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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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