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 shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.
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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.William Butler Yeats
I at midnight by the clock may creep into your bed.
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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.
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An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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Of conflicts with others we make retorica, of conflicts with ourselves poetry
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