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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.
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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
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Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.
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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
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Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.
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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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