Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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