Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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