William Butler Yeats

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    “A passion-driven exultant man sings out
    Sentences that he has never thought....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Hearts with one purpose alone
    Through summer and winter seem
    Enchanted to a stone
    To trouble the living stream.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
    About two hundred pounds a year.
    And that which was proved true before
    Prove false again? Two hundred more.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “All think what other people think;
    All know the man their neighbor knows.
    Lord, what would they say
    Did their Catullus walk that way?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)