The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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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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