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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

William Butler Yeats

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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Born Death Eyes Life Short Time Wink
Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Break Course Hard Heart Love
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Conquer Endurance Energy Moral Noble Representation Right Spirit Strong Temptation Trial
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Brief Joy Knowledge Time Tragedy
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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Nature Rose Sweet Time World Yourself
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work

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