WB Yeats

Daily lines from WB Yeats

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Like the clangour of a bell, Sweet and harsh, harsh and sweet. That is how he learnt so well, To take the roses for his meat.

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But I being poor have only my dreams. Tread softly for you tread on my dreams.

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Beneath the cloudless sky, The stars as much as I

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I heard the old, old, men say all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.

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Accursed who brings to light of day The writings I have cast away.

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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Time drops in the woods Like a candle burnt out And the mountains and the woods Have their day, have their day

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Those stilted boys, that burning chariot, Lion and woman and the Lord knows what

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And I though never of Ledean kind, Had pretty plumage once.

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I sought a theme, I sought for it in vain; I sought it daily, For six weeks or so.

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I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams

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Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide

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It is essential that the lyric poet's life be known that we should understand that his poetry is no rootless flower but the speech of a man.

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A poet is by the very nature of things a man who lives with entire sincerity, or rather the better his poetry the more sincere his life.

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Unless Soul clap its hands and sing And louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress

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An aged man is but a paltry thing A tattered coat upon a stick

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In dreams begin responsibilities.

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A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years

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Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem certain

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