By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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