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A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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The journey, Not the destination matters.

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

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His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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All time is unreedemable.

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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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