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

William Butler Yeats

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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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