Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Myself I must remake.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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