Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Myself I must remake.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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And 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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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