Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSA 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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