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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
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Nottinghamshire
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
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Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.
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When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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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 Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
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somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
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