Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBut I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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A 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.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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