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- Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to…
- While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of…
- Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to…
- There is only one romance the Soul's.
- 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…
- One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men…
- That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,…
- Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.
- It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we…
- 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…
- We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the…
- One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
- This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing…
- I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of…
- 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…
- What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
- Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
- Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that…
- There is another world, but it is in this one.
- ...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in…
- I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are…
- When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
- I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
- Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang…
- Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to…
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