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Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.
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The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Love comes in at the eye.
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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
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A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew And half is half and yet is all the scene And half and half consume what they renew.
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My wretched dragon is perplexed.
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Overcome the Empyrean hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
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In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.
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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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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
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rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
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One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.
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The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.
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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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