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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
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That toil of growing up The ignominy of boyhood the distress Of boyhood changing into man The unfinished man and his pain.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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Who mocks at music mocks at love.
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May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.
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Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.
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...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... When You Are Old And Gray
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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.
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Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.
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There are a few of the open-air spirits the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
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Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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I have nothing but the embittered sun Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves they must take their pleasure raw they haven't the time to cook it.
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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.
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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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