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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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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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yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot And there's but common greenness after that.
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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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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
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An intellectual hatred is the worst.
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You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song?
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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?
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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.
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Our words must seem to be inevitable.
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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.
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I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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What man does not understand, he fears and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
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I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?
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Myself I must remake.
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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
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