The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOne 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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