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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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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
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I knew that I had seen, had seen at last That girl my unremembering nights hold fast Or else my dreams that fly If I should rub an eye, And yet in flying fling into my meat A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.
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Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.
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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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What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.
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Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.
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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.
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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
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Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?
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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
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The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.
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