What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOne man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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