We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHammer your thoughts into unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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 visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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