We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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