There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSA 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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