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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
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Poet
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.
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I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.
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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.
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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
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Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.
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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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What can I but enumerate old themes?
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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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And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.
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By logic and reason we die hourly by imagination we live.
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Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.
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Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
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