Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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