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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

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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
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A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew And half is half and yet is all the scene And half and half consume what they renew.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.
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now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.
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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
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Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind shrieked and where are they?
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Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.
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Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.
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. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death
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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.
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What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?
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I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep And the young lie long and dream in their bed.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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