What can be explained is not poetry.
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 tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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