"rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination." — William Butler Yeats

"rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination."

— William Butler Yeats

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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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