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.
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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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