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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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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Nottinghamshire
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If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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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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One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.
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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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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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