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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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