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In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
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Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.
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Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
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The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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O sweet everlasting Voices, be still Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves they must take their pleasure raw they haven't the time to cook it.
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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
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There are a few of the open-air spirits the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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