Myself I must remake.
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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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