Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSGod guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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 in nature is resurrection.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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