It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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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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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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