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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’

William Butler Yeats

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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
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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Meaning Poetry Right Word
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
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Born Death Eyes Life Short Time Wink
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Feeling Ourselves Reason Taste Truth
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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Believe Conscience Deep Greatness Intellectual Life Myself Mystery Revolution Soul Spiritual Thinking Voice Writing
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Company Friendship Rest Yourself
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Drink Man Sober Worst
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
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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Cry Explanation Teaching
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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Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Appearance Beautiful Day Glow Season Wings
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Gold Silver Sun Time
All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Beautiful Body Dreams End Man Soul Woman

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