Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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