Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere is another world, but it is in this one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Myself I must remake.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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