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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
Politician
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
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I summon to the winding ancient stair Set all your mind upon the steep ascent
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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
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A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there And both look up to me alone For learning and defence As I look up to Providence.
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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
William Butler Yeats
A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul, I cried. My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.
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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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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
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I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.
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Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
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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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I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.
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And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.
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And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
William Butler Yeats
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
William Butler Yeats
