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There is only one romance the Soul's.

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
Inspirational
Soul
Romance

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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
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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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I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.
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Talent perceives differences genius, unity.
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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.
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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
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When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.
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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
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A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.
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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
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For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.
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This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.
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