Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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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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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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Myself I must remake.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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