What can be explained is not poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWords 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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