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for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.
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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Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...
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Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.
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The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
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