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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 Yeats

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Mysticism 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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Myself I must remake.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Beginning Friendship Glory Man Myself Thinking
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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I 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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