Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhen two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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