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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
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I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind shrieked and where are they?
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All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
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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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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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