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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
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There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
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Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.
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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?
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I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
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...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... When You Are Old And Gray
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
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BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
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