Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything in nature is resurrection.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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