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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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