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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

William Butler Yeats

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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Ecstasy Happiness Imperfection Live
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Best Logic Mindset People Philosophy Starve
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
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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Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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
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
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
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Born Death Eyes Life Short Time Wink
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Beginning Dreams Inspirational One Liner Possible
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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Heart Rose Time
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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Sex Soul Tragedy Virgin

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