Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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