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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
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
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...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... When You Are Old And Gray
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Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant.
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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.
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Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
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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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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
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And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.
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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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Talent perceives differences genius, unity.
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to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.
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Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
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