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I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

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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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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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That toil of growing up The ignominy of boyhood the distress Of boyhood changing into man The unfinished man and his pain.
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God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.
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John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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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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Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.
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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
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I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?
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I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.
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And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep And the young lie long and dream in their bed.
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