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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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