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By logic and reason we die hourly by imagination we live.
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
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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
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The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.
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Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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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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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
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