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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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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.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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And say my glory was I had such friends.

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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: June 13th, 1865

Died: January 28th, 1939

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