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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
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W. B. Yeats
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on the sweet far thing.
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An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.
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Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.
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And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.
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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
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Only the dead can be forgiven But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
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In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.
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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
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Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.
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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.
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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
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I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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