We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begins responsibility.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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