But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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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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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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Myself I must remake.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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