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A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
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
William Yeats
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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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I have nothing but the embittered sun Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.
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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
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rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
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Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.
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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
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Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
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For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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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 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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There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.
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There is only one romance the Soul's.
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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
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We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
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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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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.
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A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon I hail the superhuman I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.
William Butler Yeats
