Author: William Butler Yeats

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

- William Butler Yeats

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

- William Butler Yeats

In dreams begins responsibility.

In dreams begins responsibility.

- William Butler Yeats

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

- William Butler Yeats

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

- William Butler Yeats

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

- William Butler Yeats

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.

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.

- William Butler Yeats

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

- William Butler Yeats

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

- William Butler Yeats

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