It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd 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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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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