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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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
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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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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
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Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
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Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
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