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William Butler Yeats föddes den June 13th 1865 och dog den 28 January 1939 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
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 Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect

 Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that

 Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

 Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

 Come swish around, my pretty punk,
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.

 Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.

 Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

 Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?

 Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

 Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

 Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

 Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

 Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

 Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.


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