Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Myself I must remake.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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