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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.
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
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
Friendship
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O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
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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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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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When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.
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How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves that lamp is from the tomb.
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.
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I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no moreSoon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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.
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That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
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