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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

William Butler Yeats

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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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