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I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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I at midnight by the clock may creep into your bed.
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I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.
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Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?
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Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect
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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
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And say my glory was I had such friends.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
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All shuffle there; all cough in ink;All wear the carpet with their shoes;All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbour knows,Lord, what would they sayDid their Catullus walk that way?
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions
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A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.
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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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