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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
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Playwright
Poet
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Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.
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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
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I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.
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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.
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