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

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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Writer
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.
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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
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When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
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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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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
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As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.
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somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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