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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
Merely
Emotional
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For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.
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Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.
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A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
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But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
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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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A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
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For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves they must take their pleasure raw they haven't the time to cook it.
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Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
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Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
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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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