The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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