All 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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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