I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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