It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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 innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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