Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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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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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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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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