From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAny 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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 innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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