Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMyself I must remake.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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