People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTeaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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