The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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