By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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