We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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