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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMan is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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