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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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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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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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