It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begins responsibility.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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