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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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In my beginning is my end.

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

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

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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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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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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