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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTeaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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