Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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