Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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 worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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