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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

William Butler Yeats

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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Difference Genius Talent Unity
Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Experience Literature Man Personal Ready Vision
Myself I must remake.
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Build Improvement Myself Transformation
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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Battle Courage Darkness Fight Society Soldier Soul
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
Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Connection Leaves Nature Oneself Root Spiritual Tree
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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Nature Rose Sweet Time World Yourself
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Death Imagination Live Logic Reason
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
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Earth Existence Feet Ourselves True
What can be explained is not poetry.
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Explanation One Liner Poetry
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Beautiful Enemy Innocence Time
In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beginning Dreams Responsibility
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
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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Growth Happiness Philosophy Simplicity Spiritual Virtue
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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Easy Home Invention Journalist Lying Man Stay Vote
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
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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Eyes Fall Hairs Heart Lonely Love Rest
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Dreams Round Yourself
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Beginning Friendship Glory Man Myself Thinking
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Empty Opinion Soul
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Beautiful Myself Old Water
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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Conquer Endurance Energy Moral Noble Representation Right Spirit Strong Temptation Trial

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