Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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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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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.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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