only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLove 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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