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When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.
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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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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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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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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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
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Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.
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A line will take us hours maybe / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
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A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
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