Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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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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Myself I must remake.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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