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I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
Love
Although
Door
Sex
Meet
Inconstancy
Doors
Tremble
Leave
Bone
Gone
Sooner
Looks
Bones

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