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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Disappear Love Man
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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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
What can be explained is not poetry.
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Explanation One Liner Poetry
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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Meaning Poetry Right Word
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Battle Courage Darkness Fight Society Soldier Soul
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Best Intense Passionate Worst
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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Contrary Greatness Mystery Past Power Pretend World
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Drink Man Sober Worst
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Growth Happiness Philosophy Simplicity Spiritual Virtue
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
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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Cry Explanation Teaching
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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Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself One Liner True
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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Break Course Hard Heart Love
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beginning Dreams Responsibility
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Change Face Love Man Soul Yourself
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Easy Home Invention Journalist Lying Man Stay Vote
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Beautiful Myself Old Water
The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Alive Awake Blood Blow Myself Nature Space Stars Wind
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Company Friendship Rest Yourself

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