Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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