If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSCome 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!
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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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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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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