The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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