We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
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O love is the crooked thing,There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is in it.William Butler Yeats
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.
William Butler Yeats
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
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Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
William Butler Yeats
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