Life
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life.
The dreary intercourse of daily life.
Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
I am content to live it all again
And yet again, if it be life to pitch
Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
And yet again, if it be life to pitch
Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. A Dialogue of Self and Soul
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!
Last Poems, 1936-1939, Under Ben Bulben
In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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