We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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