Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering
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I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.
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Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air Their hearts have not grown old.
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