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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
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Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.
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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
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If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?
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That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.
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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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I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.
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John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.
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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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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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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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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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