From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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