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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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
William Yeats
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.
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The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.
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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
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Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
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John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
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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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Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.
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I had this thought a while ago, My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land. And I grew weary of the sun
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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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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
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I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
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When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.
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If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.
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