Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat can be explained is not poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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