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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
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Nottinghamshire
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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
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And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.
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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?
William Butler Yeats
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
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A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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We are fastened to a dying animal.
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An intellectual hatred is the worst.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.
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As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.
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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
William Butler Yeats
Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew And half is half and yet is all the scene And half and half consume what they renew.
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