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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
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember
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Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive we go both round and upward.
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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.
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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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Talent perceives differences genius, unity.
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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
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The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. Hound voices were they all.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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