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William Butler Yeats

"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

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"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

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"Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return. Do not so."

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"He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods, the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted."

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"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."

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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."

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"Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars."

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"Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only."

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"Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars and air, carrying a peppery dust in it, and moving like a rare light sherry on his tongue. Rain."

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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
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"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
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"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."
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"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
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"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
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"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."
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"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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"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?"
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