Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSonly an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Myself I must remake.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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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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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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