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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.
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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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All think what other people think All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
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Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.
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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
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But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.
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We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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A line will take us hours maybe Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
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And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.
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Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.
William Butler Yeats
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.
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