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- William Butler Yeats: Irish poet
- John Butler Yeats: Irish painter
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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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Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.
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Hate is a kind of 'passive suffering', but indignation is a kind of joy.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
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Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
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