We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere is another world, but it is in this one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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