W.B. Yeats

Poet, playwright, Senator, Irish nationalist

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Cast your mind on other days
That we in coming days may be
Still the indomitable Irishry.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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@Glen_Hansard “Literature is always personal...it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.”

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“Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us..."

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“One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives...Everything that has been shall be again.”

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“Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.”

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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

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All empty souls tend towards extreme opinions.

[Saul John May @sauljmay]

@yeats_ "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone it's with O'leary in the grave"

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“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”

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“God guard me from those thoughts men think in the mind alone.”

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“Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience..."

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“Out of Ireland have we come.
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start."

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“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”

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"I Know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love..."

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"He made the world to be a grassy road before her wandering feet."

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Under Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.

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She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.