The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
- William Butler Yeats
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- The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the...
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- One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
- When You Are Old” WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the...
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
- There is another world, but it is in this one.
- Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
- But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly...
- Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind...
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
- What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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