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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
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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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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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone.
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Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead
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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.
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I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
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How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?
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