Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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 dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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