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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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
W. B. Yeats
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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
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Our words must seem to be inevitable.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.
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The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
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yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot And there's but common greenness after that.
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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.
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