Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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