Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
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I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor.William Butler Yeats
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
William Butler Yeats
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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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
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Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned
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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul.
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