Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMan is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Myself I must remake.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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 best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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