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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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