The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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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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Myself I must remake.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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