A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. r.William Butler Yeats
I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough for a man and a woman to understand each other and in this case to understand is to love.
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have s
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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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A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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