It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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