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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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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Nottinghamshire
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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.
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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.
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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.
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