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Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.
----Philip Larkin
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
---W.B. Yeats
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In dreams begin responsibilities.
----William Butler Yeats
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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell?
-Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
William Butler Yeats
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speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver.
---William Blake
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
---Yeats, William Butler
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How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
---William Butler Yeats
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
---William Blake
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...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...
---William Butler Yeats
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I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
-----William Blake
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My work is visionary or imaginative. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care...
---William Blake
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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.
----William Wordsworth
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
----William Blake
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
---William Blake
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