What can be explained is not poetry.
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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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