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The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.
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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Playwright
Poet
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.
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May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.
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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.
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I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.
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Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
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I summon to the winding ancient stair Set all your mind upon the steep ascent
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.
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