We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat can be explained is not poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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