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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

William Butler Yeats

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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Beautiful Myself Old Water
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
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
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
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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Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Fire Light Teaching
What can be explained is not poetry.
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Explanation One Liner Poetry
All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Beautiful Body Dreams End Man Soul Woman
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
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
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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Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
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
Myself I must remake.
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Build Improvement Myself Transformation
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom

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