And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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 I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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