Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBy logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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