Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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