People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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