What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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