What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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