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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
Astrologer
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
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