If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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 is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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