All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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