Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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