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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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