It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBy logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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