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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

William Butler Yeats

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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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Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Business Head Heart World
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
In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beginning Dreams Responsibility
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Eyes Fall Hairs Heart Lonely Love Rest
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Gold Silver Sun Time
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Born Death Eyes Life Short Time Wink
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
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
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
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Feeling Ourselves Reason Taste Truth
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Dreams Feet Myself Poor
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Angel Dance Flame Mountain Ride World Yourself
Myself I must remake.
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Build Improvement Myself Transformation
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
There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Hide Perspective World
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
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
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
If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Connection Myself Relatable Tree Yourself
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education Fire Lightning
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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Believe Conscience Deep Greatness Intellectual Life Myself Mystery Revolution Soul Spiritual Thinking Voice Writing
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Best Intense Passionate Worst
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Beautiful Enemy Innocence Time

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