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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.
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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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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
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Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.
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rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
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For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.
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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.
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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.
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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.
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