Irish - Poet | June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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