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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
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