Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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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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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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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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