And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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