Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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