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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

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

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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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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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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All time is unreedemable.

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Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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