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Myself I must remake.

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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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Nottinghamshire
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BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
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Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.
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Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.
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Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
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I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.
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But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
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How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?
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