When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSYet 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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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