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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

William Butler Yeats

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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Myself I must remake.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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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 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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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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