Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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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