What can be explained is not poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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