The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.William Butler Yeats
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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Because I am mad about womenI am mad about the hills,Said that wild old wicked manWho travels where God wills. . . .
William Butler Yeats
Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost; For all eyes but these eyes.
William Butler Yeats
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