Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Myself I must remake.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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