| Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. |
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| Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. |
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| The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. |
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- William Butler Yeats |
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| Who can tell the dancer from the dance? |
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- William Butler Yeats |
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| But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. |
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- William Butler Yeats |
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| Dream, dream, for this is also sooth. |
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| Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. |
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| I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. |
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| In dreams begin responsibility. |
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| Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind delight. |
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| The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy. |
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| What made us dream that he could comb gray hair? |
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- William Butler Yeats |
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| How can we know the dancer from the dance? |
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- William Butler Yeats |
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| We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. |
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- William Butler Yeats |
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| True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. |
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- William Butler Yeats |
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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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- William Butler Yeats |
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