Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBeloved, 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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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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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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