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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

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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: June 13th, 1865

Died: January 28th, 1939

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