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“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Hell is just a frame of mind.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

“But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.”
― Robert Burns

“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“And wonder, dread and war
have lingered in that land
where loss and love in turn
have held the upper hand.”
― Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

“Amor vincit omnia”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi.”
― Dante Alighieri, La vita nuova

“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
― William Butler Yeats

“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.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and sigh.”
― W.B. Yeats