God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLiterature 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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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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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 only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Myself I must remake.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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