William Butler Yeats

Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
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On Old Age:

Pardon, old fathers.

Responsibilities, 1914

On Old Age:

An old man's eagle mind.

Last Poems, 1936-1939, An Acre of Grass

On Word:

Words alone are certain good.

Crossways, 1889, The Song of the Happy Shepherd

On Intellectual:

An intellectual hate is the worst.

On Dream:

In dreams begins responsibility.

Responsibilities, 1914

On Heart:

I hear it in the deep heart's core.

The Rose, 1893. The Lake Isle of Innisfree

On Dream:

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

Crossways, 1889, The Song of the Happy Shepherd

On Sea:

That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. Byzantium

An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.

The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. Byzantium

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. Vacillation
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