All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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