What can be explained is not poetry.
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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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