only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Myself I must remake.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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