But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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