And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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