If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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 visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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