An intellectual hate is the worst.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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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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