In dreams begins responsibility.

W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats

He that made this knows all the cost, for he gave all his heart and lost.

W. B. Yeats · The closing couplet of "Never Give All the Heart," a poem that warns against giving all the heart and then admits the poet did exactly that.

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face.

W. B. Yeats · From "When You Are Old," written at 27 for Maud Gonne, asking her to picture herself old and remember the one man who loved more than her beauty.

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Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

The Bible · Habakkuk 2:2

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

The Bible · Proverbs 29:18

I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

William Shakespeare

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“In dreams begins responsibility.”

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

“He that made this knows all the cost, for he gave all his heart and lost.”

“But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face.”

“Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

“I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”