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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
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
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Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
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Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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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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Only the dead can be forgiven But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
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There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.
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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.
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Swift has sailed into his rest Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler he Served human liberty.
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I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.
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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.
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Our words must seem to be inevitable.
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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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