It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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