What can be explained is not poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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