And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOnly that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Myself I must remake.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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