We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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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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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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