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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
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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And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.
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Everything we look upon is blest.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.
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There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
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When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.
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I have nothing but the embittered sun Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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Talent perceives differences genius, unity.
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