From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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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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