What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIf what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Myself I must remake.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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