Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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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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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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