I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSRose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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Love 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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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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