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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
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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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By logic and reason we die hourly by imagination we live.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
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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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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
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I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
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Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea. The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.
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My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. This Land of Saints, and then as the applause died out, Of plaster Saints his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
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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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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
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Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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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 have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .
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