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What does it mean?
It questions whether we imagine more about winning or losing love.
In plain terms
Do we think more about gaining or losing her?
What can you take from it?
Consider what drives your imagination.

Where it applies

  • dating
  • breakups
  • writing

Putting it to work

  • notice your thoughts
  • explore loss

Questions to consider

  • What do you obsess over?
  • Does loss inspire more art?

Another view

Some people think more about the relationship itself.

More from William Butler Yeats

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  2. Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

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  3. All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own …

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