Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the 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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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