Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
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In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.William Butler Yeats
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
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We had fed the heart on fantasies,The heart's grown brutal from the fare.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Now that my ladders gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. (William Butler Yeats described his first meeting with a Hindu philosopher at Dublin)
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