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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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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?
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When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?
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The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
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O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
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Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.
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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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And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.
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