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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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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Nottinghamshire
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Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.
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Speech after long silence it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant.
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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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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.
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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.
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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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The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.
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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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