It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.William Butler Yeats
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways.
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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 of eternity.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
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