Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll 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.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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