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Who mocks at music mocks at love.
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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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
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What man does not understand, he fears and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone.
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Only the dead can be forgiven But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
William Butler Yeats
Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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All think what other people think All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
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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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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.
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God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw, A Buddha, hand at rest, Hand lifted up that blest And right between these two a girl at play That, it may be, had danced her life away.
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When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.
William Butler Yeats
I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
William Butler Yeats
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
William Butler Yeats
