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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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 visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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