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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.

William Butler Yeats

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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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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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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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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