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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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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
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There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
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John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
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Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... When You Are Old And Gray
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A lonely impulse of delight
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