The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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