Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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