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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

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Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.

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The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

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Time can but make her beauty over again.

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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.

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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

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I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

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In dreams begins responsibility.

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If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

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But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

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