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What can be explained is not poetry.

William Butler Yeats

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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Beautiful Kind Love Myself Seek World
An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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Hands Heart Myself Quiet
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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