Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.
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we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence.William Butler Yeats
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman rightHe's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night.
William Butler Yeats
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their prideThey have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their prideI made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied.
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