When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTeaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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