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Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
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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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.
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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
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O heart, we are old The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
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For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.
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I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me
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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Between extremities Man runs his course A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night.
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on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.
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