It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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