"Love is created and preserved by intellectual..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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“I thought no more was neededYouth to prolongThan dumb-bell and foilTo keep the body young.O who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?”
“Earth in beauty dressedAwaits returning spring.All true love must die,Alter at the bestInto some lesser thing.Prove that I lie.”
“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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