The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHammer your thoughts into unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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