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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
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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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.
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Only the dead can be forgiven But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Myself I must remake.
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rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
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I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.
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I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
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