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Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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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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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on the sweet far thing.
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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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