When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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