All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMan is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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