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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
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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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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Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
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One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.
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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.
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Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
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Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.
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Myself I must remake.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
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Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.
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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.
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But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
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Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
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Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.
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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
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What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
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