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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
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.
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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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for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.
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In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Our words must seem to be inevitable.
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You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song?
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves they must take their pleasure raw they haven't the time to cook it.
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All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.
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When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.
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Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
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