Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Myself I must remake.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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