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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

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
Politician
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.
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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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Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
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Things fall apart the center cannot hold.
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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
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What can I but enumerate old themes?
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I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
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While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His Morning and his Night disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew.
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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
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The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away
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There is only one romance the Soul's.
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
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I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.
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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
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