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Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.
----Philip Larkin
Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
William Shakespeare, King Lear
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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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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare, King John
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Let the great world spin for ever down
the ringing grooves of change.
---Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
---William Shakespeare
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In dreams begin responsibilities.
----William Butler Yeats
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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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Who is this? And what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the Knights at Camelot;
But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, "She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.
---Alfred Tennyson
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I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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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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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
---Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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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