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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.

William Butler Yeats

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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Death Imagination Live Logic Reason
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Joy Labor Obstacle Success
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
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Business Head Heart World
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Best Intense Passionate Worst
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Art Fight Ourselves Poet Poetry
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
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
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Hands Heart Myself Quiet
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
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Empty Opinion Soul
Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Build Inspirational Reality Unity Yourself
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Beautiful Kind Love Myself Seek World
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Feeling Ourselves Reason Taste Truth

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