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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
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Writer
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
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Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
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I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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