June 13, 2012
"For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon."

— W.B. Yeats (on his birthday)

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June 13, 2012
Today is birthday of the poet and playwright William Butler Yeats, born in Dublin, Ireland in 165).
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true,But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars,Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fledAnd paced upon the mountains overheadAnd hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
 The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Today is birthday of the poet and playwright William Butler Yeats, born in Dublin, Ireland in 165).

When you are old and grey 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;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

 The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

June 1, 2012
"What can be explained is not poetry."

— W.B. Yeats

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