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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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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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A line will take us hours maybe Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
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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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I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
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to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.
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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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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
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Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
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Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
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Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.
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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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There are a few of the open-air spirits the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.
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