Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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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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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.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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