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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

William Butler Yeats

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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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