And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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