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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
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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.
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People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
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I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
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rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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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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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.
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You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song?
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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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Everything we look upon is blest.
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How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
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Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.
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The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.
William Butler Yeats
Only the dead can be forgiven But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
William Butler Yeats
