The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBut I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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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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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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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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