Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLove 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Myself I must remake.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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 begin responsibilitiy.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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