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There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.
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Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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An intellectual hatred is the worst.
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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
William Butler Yeats
Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
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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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He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
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Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?
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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.
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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
William Butler Yeats
