Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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