Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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