Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything in nature is resurrection.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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