The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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