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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOne man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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 seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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