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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
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.
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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
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on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.
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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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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.
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Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.
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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.
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What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
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No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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