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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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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.
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An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.
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All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.
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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
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Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.
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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.
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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?
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People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
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A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
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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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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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