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William Butler Yeats Quotes: Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
         

Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?


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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!



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



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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.



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



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