Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSonly an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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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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