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Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind shrieked and where are they?
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The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.
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Myself I must remake.
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From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.
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I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.
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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
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There is only one romance the Soul's.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
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The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.
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Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.
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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
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I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.
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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
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All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.
William Butler Yeats