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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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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I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.
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A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.
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on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.
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Time can but make her beauty over again.
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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.
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And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.
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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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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
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I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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