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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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
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Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.
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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
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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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Words alone are certain good.
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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.
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Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.
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Myself I must remake.
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People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
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The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.
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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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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
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Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.
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Who mocks at music mocks at love.
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Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
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