The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
William Butler Yeats on dreams
William Butler Yeats89 quotes“The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.”
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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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything in nature is resurrection.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Where there is nothing, there is God.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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