By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere is another world, but it is in this one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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