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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
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Nottinghamshire
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Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.
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Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea. The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.
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Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive we go both round and upward.
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How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves that lamp is from the tomb.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.
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All think what other people think All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
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There is only one romance the Soul's.
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