only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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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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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Myself I must remake.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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