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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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