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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe 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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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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