By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSNeither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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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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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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