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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

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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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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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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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
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Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
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