dreams-visions-carefully-certain-imagination-way-truth-reason-commandments-body

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 Yeats
0/5 (0)

William Butler Yeats's Popular Quotes

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

- William Butler Yeats

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

- William Butler Yeats

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

- William Butler Yeats

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

- William Butler Yeats

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

- William Butler Yeats

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

- William Butler Yeats

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

- William Butler Yeats

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

- William Butler Yeats
0 Comments

Login to join the discussion