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 | "One should not lose one"s temper unless one is certain of getting
more and more angry to the end." | |
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Found in the topic Anger.
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| "Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the
virtues." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a
wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by
drink and harlots." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards
Bethlehem to be born?" | |
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Found in the topic Future.
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| "Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel
with ourselves we make poetry." | |
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Found in the topic Others.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Alcohol.
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| "What shall I do with this absurdity? O heart, O troubled heart?this
caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog"s tail?
Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear
and eye That more expected the impossible." | |
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Found in the topic Absurd.
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| "O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the
blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can
we know the dancer from the dance." | |
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Found in the topic Cynic.
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| "Dream, dream, for this is also sooth." | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless
obeisance to the heart." | |
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Found in the topic Head.
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| "An intellectual hate is the worst." | |
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Found in the topic Hate.
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| "Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "In dreams begin responsibility." | |
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Found in the topic Responsibility.
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| "When you are old and gray 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; 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. And
bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love
fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd
of stars. When you are Old." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick,
unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in
its mortal dress." | |
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Found in the topic Soul.
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| "It"s certain there is no fine thing Since Adam"s fall but needs much
laboring." | |
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Found in the topic Adam.
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| "I heard the old, old men say "All that"s beautiful drifts away Like
the waters."" | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "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 honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade." | |
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Found in the topic Bee.
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| "Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the
falconer; Things fall apart the center 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." | |
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Found in the topic Fall.
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| "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by
striking." | |
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Found in the topic Opportunity.
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