Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTalent perceives differences; genius, unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Myself I must remake.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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