Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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 heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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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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