What can be explained is not poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Myself I must remake.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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