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The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.
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
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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The unpurged images of day recede The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.
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Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.
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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
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All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
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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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Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.
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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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I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.
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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
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There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
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