We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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