The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Though 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.
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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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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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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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