The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTeaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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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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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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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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