Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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 make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Myself I must remake.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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