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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
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
W.B. Yeats
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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
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May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.
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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.
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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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