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.
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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Myself I must remake.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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