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#38

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

tags: dance, faeries, mountains, wind, world

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#39

“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: poetry, yeats

575 likes

#40

“WINE comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and sigh.”
― W.B. Yeats

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#41

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)”
― W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

tags: dreams

543 likes

#42

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: pessimism, poems, poetry, resignation

399 likes

#43

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: poetry

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#44

“In dreams begin responsibilities.”
― William Butler Yeats, Responsibilities

tags: dreams, responsibility

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#45

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
― William Butler Yeats

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#46

“I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

tags: dreams, poetry

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#47

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: home, homesickness, ireland, longing, nature, poetry

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#48

“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
― William Butler Yeats

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#49

“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, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: ageing, aging, beauty, poetry

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#50

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep”
― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: books, old-age, poetry, reading

174 likes

#51

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4768 likes

#52

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth

3810 likes

#53

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

tags: betrayal, disappointment

3581 likes

#54

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: infinity, perception

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#55

“On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: childhood, magic

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#56

“And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world.”
― Anais Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

tags: hate, love, magic, science

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#57

“Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: harry-dresden, love, magic, thomas-raith

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#58

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world

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#59

“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.

The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.

Dare to breach the surface and sink.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: bones, contradiction, contrast, danger, dangers, deep, delve, depth, depths, desert, desolation, dig, drought, dry, dust, eco, ecology, hidden, illusion, innards, inside, inside-out, inward, membrane, microcosm, mysteries, mystery, obscure, obscured, occult, ocean, outside, plenty, profound, profundity, riches, richness, scarcity, skin, skin-deep, superficial, surface, water, within, without, world

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#60

“Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: cold, enthusiasm, excitement, hidden

167 likes

#61

“Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

tags: hidden, invisible, perception, reality

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#62

“I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, still water. For a second I thought I could see pictures in them, like I was looking right inside her to where her memories were. She smiled, and I wondered if she knew what I'd seen or if she could see the pictures I kept hidden inside myself.”
― Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

tags: eyes, hidden, memories, pictures

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#63

“If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.”
― Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

tags: clatter, clinks, earth, eyes, fame, flee, hidden, life, obscurity, roots, sincerity, tree, upright

17 likes

#65

“You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.”
― Evelyn Klebert, Ghost Soldier

tags: beautiful, camouflage, hidden, poison, surprised

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#66

“I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me “F*** you.” Then I’ll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I’ll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

1842 likes

#67

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: flowers, laughter

2868 likes

#68

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

tags: crying, emotion, emotions, flowers, fruit, growing, nature, sadness, sunlight, tears, trees, water

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