By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSChoose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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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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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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