It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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