The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSSometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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