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

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

William Butler Yeats
Imagination, Logic, Progressive

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
Dream, Imagination, Vision
William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

William Butler Yeats
Imagination, Doe, Losing
'The Tower' pt. 2

The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.

William Butler Yeats
Eye, Imagination, Mind
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

William Butler Yeats
Running, Imagination, What If
William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.129

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

William Butler Yeats
Imagination

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

William Butler Yeats
Men, Evil, Imagination
"The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies".

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

William Butler Yeats
Imagination, Rhetoric

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

William Butler Yeats
Life, Truth, Imagination
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

William Butler Yeats
Wine, Imagination, Bed
William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

William Butler Yeats
Plato, Eye, Imagination
William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.418, Hayes Barton Press

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