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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

William Butler Yeats

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Joy Labor Obstacle Success
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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Business Head Heart World
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Beautiful Kind Love Myself Seek World
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself One Liner True
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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Heart Rose Time
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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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Battle Courage Darkness Fight Society Soldier Soul
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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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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Eyes Fall Hairs Heart Lonely Love Rest
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
All 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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Live Low Man Satisfaction Stay Suffering
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Death Imagination Live Logic Reason
And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Morning Myself Peace Sing Slow

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