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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember
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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Poet
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
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I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
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By logic and reason we die hourly by imagination we live.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
William Butler Yeats
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
William Butler Yeats
Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.
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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.
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I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.
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Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
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The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.
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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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We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
William Butler Yeats
The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
William Butler Yeats
What can be explained is not poetry.
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My wretched dragon is perplexed.
William Butler Yeats
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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