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What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
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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Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.
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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.
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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
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Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
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Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
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I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
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Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
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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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Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
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And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.
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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.
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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.
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