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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

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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
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
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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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The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.
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