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William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
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Poet
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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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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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
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even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.
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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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.
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The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.
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Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.
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The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.
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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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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
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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 bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves they must take their pleasure raw they haven't the time to cook it.
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While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His Morning and his Night disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
William Butler Yeats
The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.
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