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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
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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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.
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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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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
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When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
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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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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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Acquaintance companion One dear brilliant woman The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.
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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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What can I but enumerate old themes?
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