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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees...........
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
------Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
---+William Yeats
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
---W.B. Yeats
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All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
---William Butler Yeats
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The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.
---William Blake
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The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed
The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.
---William Butler Yeats
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
---W.B. Yeats
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
---William Blake
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I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.
---William Butler Yeats
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Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
----William Blake
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The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
- "Auguries of Innocence William blake, The Complete Poems
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
---William Blake
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
---William Blake
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
---William Blake
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God Appears & God is Light
To those poor Souls who dwell in Night
But does a Human Form Display
To those who Dwell in Realms of day
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
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The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold
Is full of blessings, Therefore let the moon
Shine on thee in thy solitary walk;
And let the misty mountain-winds be free
To blow against thee
----William Wordsworth
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
---William Blake
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You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.
---Philip Larkin
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'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
----Lord Byron
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Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?
----John Milton, Paradise Lost
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We in ourselves rejoice!
And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight,
All melodies the echoes of that voice,
All colours a suffusion from that light.
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
----William Shakespeare
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We should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time
---Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
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The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
----William Wordsworth
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Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
----Philip Larkin, High Windows
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Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?
----John Milton, Paradise Lost
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
----Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
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Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.
Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.
----Robert Burns
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You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-----Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
---william blake
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
----William Blake
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
----William Blake
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As tempted more; more able to endure,
As more exposed to suffering and distress;
Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.
----William Wordsworth
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
----William Wordsworth
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..........books are yours,
Within whose silent chambers treasure lies
Preserved from age to age; more precious far
Than that accumulated store of gold
And orient gems, which, for a day of need,
The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs.
These hoards of truth you can unlock at will:
---William Wordsworth
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In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.
----Philip Larkin
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Luck is the residue of design.
----John Milton
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
----William Shakespeare
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
---Philip Larkin
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O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
----Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-- - Robert Frost
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."
-Emily Dickinson
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
----Pablo Neruda
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He didn't say it goes on forever. He meant that life doesn't stop for anyone.
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell through all its regions.
----William Blake
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Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
– Sylvia Plath
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Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.
--from "Crossing the Water", written 1962
Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
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And still, after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
– Hafiz
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Freely we serve,
Because we freely love,as in our will
To love or not;in this we stand or fall.
----John Milton, Paradise Lost
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
----Lord Byron
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Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs
And vexes meditation with its strange
And extreme silentness.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The unquiet republic of the maze
Of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
----Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
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When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
----Robert Browning
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
----William Shakespeare
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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
----Robert Frost
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The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
----From "The Mower
Philip Larkin
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
----William Wordsworth
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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
---John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word--the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.
----Philip Larkin
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Heaven's ebon vault,
Studded with stars unutterably bright,
Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,
Seems like a canopy which love has spread
To curtain her sleeping world.
----Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul.
---ST Coleridge
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