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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

William Butler Yeats

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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Beautiful Enemy Innocence Time
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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Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Close Key Uncertain
Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Connection Leaves Nature Oneself Root Spiritual Tree
The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Alive Awake Blood Blow Myself Nature Space Stars Wind
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Eyes Love Myself Romance See Wine Yourself
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Drink Man Sober Worst
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Ecstasy Happiness Imperfection Live
Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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King Life Live Slave Sleep Soul Spiritual
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
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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Dreams Feet Myself Poor
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Born Death Eyes Life Short Time Wink
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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Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
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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Live Low Man Satisfaction Stay Suffering
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Company Friendship Rest Yourself
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Change Face Love Man Soul Yourself
Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Nature One Liner World
What can be explained is not poetry.
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Explanation One Liner Poetry
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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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Best Intense Passionate Worst
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Battle Character Dreams Fight Fools Inspirational Life Lose Myself Need Night Party Soul Win
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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Cry Explanation Teaching
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Best Logic Mindset People Philosophy Starve
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Myself Suffering Wisdom

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