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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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I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay
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I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.
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But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on the sweet far thing.
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All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
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Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
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Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.
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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
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. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
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A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.
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When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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