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- Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday…
- 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…
- Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice…
- In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate…
- That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
- Hammer your thoughts into unity.
- I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
- Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of…
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are…
- Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.
- Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun…
- Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a…
- Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
- Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
- I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I,…
- Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss…
- The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any…
- We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
- A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until…
- I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me
- Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow…
- As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- William Butler Yeats Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into…
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