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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

William Butler Yeats

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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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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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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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