Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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