Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begin responsibilitiy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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