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W.B. Yeats
“One that is ever kind said yesterday:
'Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey,
And little shadows come about her eyes;
Time can but make it easier to be wise
Though now it seems impossible, and so
All that you need is patience.'

Heart cries, 'No,
I have not a crumb of comfort, not a grain.
Time can but make her beauty over again:
Because of that great nobleness of hers
The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs,
Burns but more clearly. O she had not these ways
When all the wild Summer was in her gaze.'

Heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head,
You'd know the folly of being comforted!”
William Butler Yeats

W.B. Yeats
“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
Yeats

W.B. Yeats
“By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.”
William Butler Yeats
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W.B. Yeats
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”
W.B. Yeats
tags: yeats

W.B. Yeats
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Yeats, William Butler

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