The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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