What can be explained is not poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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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 dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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