What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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