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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

William Butler Yeats

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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Sex Soul Tragedy Virgin
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
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.
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Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Company Friendship Rest Yourself
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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Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
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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Growth Happiness Philosophy Simplicity Spiritual Virtue
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
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
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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Break Course Hard Heart Love
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Feeling Ourselves Reason Taste Truth
Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Beautiful Myself Old Water
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Change Face Love Man Soul Yourself
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars

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