Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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 innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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