Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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