If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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