But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begins responsibility.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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 is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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