And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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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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