People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTeaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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