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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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The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. Hound voices were they all.
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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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O heart, we are old The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
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