What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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