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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
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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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Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea. The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.
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Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.
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How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves that lamp is from the tomb.
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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Love comes in at the eye.
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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
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