Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that true love is a discipline.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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