William Butler Yeats
Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
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Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. Vacillation
What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
Can make a stone of the heart.
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrowbone.
Thinks in a marrowbone.
A Full Moon in March, 1935. A Prayer for Old Age
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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