Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTalent perceives differences; genius, unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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