What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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