Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTalent perceives differences; genius, unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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