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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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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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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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