It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEvery 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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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