The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSChoose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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