Though leaves are many, the root is one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSSometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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