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For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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
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The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.
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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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Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.
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While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His Morning and his Night disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
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Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
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What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.
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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.
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I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep And the young lie long and dream in their bed.
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.
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