William Butler Yeats

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“For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“What is the good of a man and he
Alone and alone, with a speckled shin?
I would that I drank with my love on my knee,
Between two barrels at the inn.
Oro, oro!
To-morrow night I will break down the door.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

““I weave the shoes of Sorrow:
Soundless shall be the footfall light
In all men’s ears of Sorrow,
Sudden and light.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)