Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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