Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begin responsibilitiy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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