William Butler Yeats

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    Being mocked by Guido for his lecherous life,
    Derided and deriding, driven out
    To climb that stair and eat that bitter bread,
    He found the unpersuadable justice, he found
    The most exalted lady loved by a man.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
    All that man is,
    All mere complexities,
    The fury and the mire of human veins.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    At stroke of midnight soul cannot endure
    A bodily or mental furniture.
    What can she take until her Master give!
    Where can she look until He make the show!
    What can she know until He bid her know!
    How can she live till in her blood He live!
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,
    I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    When my arms wrap you round I press
    My heart upon the loveliness
    That has long faded from the world....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)