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I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.
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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Poet
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.
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Locke sank into a swoon The Garden died God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
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The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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