Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBy logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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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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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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