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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
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
Friendship
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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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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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God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.
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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
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What man does not understand, he fears and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant.
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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
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Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.
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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
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Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.
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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
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