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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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Myself I must remake.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Connection Myself Relatable Tree Yourself
There is another world, but it is in this one.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Art Fight Ourselves Poet Poetry
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Battle Courage Darkness Fight Society Soldier Soul
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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