All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Myself I must remake.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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