Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLove 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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Myself I must remake.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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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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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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