Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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