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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Mysticism 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.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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