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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.

William Butler Yeats

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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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Brief Joy Knowledge Time Tragedy
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Change Face Love Man Soul Yourself
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Live Low Man Satisfaction Stay Suffering
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 YEATS

Meaning Poetry Right Word
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Empty Opinion Soul
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Gold Silver Sun Time
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Art Fight Ourselves Poet Poetry
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Feeling Ourselves Reason Taste Truth
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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Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beginning Dreams Responsibility

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