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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.
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I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.
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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 heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. This Land of Saints, and then as the applause died out, Of plaster Saints his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
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So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
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In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.
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Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?
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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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In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.
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