Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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