Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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 tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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