Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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