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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
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Nottinghamshire
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A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.
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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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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
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The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
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Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.
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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.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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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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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
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A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out. It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.
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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
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As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.
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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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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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