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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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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Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
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I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
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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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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
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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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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
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We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
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That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.
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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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What man does not understand, he fears and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.
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O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.
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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.
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. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death
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