Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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