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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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 balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
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on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.
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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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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
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Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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