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Lyriker, Dramatiker, Nobelpreis für Literatur/1923 (Irland, 1865 - 1939).

William Butler Yeats · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

William Butler Yeats wäre heute 158 Jahre, 10 Monate, 13 Tage oder 58.026 Tage alt.

Geboren am 13.06.1865 in Sandymount/Dublin
Gestorben am 28.01.1939 in Rouquebrune-Cap-Martin (Frankreich)
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• And what rough beast, its hour come round last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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• And what rough beasts, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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• Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

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• But where's the wild dog that has praised his fleas?

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• Cast a cold eye / On life, on death. / Horseman pass by!

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• Cast your mind on other days / That we in coming days may be / Still the indomitable Irishry.

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• Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; / She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. / She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; / But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

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• Far-off, most secret and inviolate Rose.

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• He knows death to the bone- / Man has created death.

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• I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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• I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore . . . / I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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• I said 'a line will take us hours maybe, / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught'.

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• I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; / Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, / And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

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• I will arise and go now.

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• In dreams begins responsibility.

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• Irish poets, learn your trade, / Sing whatever is well made.

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• Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

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• Michelangelo left a proof / On the Sistine Chapel roof, / Where but half-awakened Adam / Can disturb globe-trotting Madam.

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• My country is Kiltartan Cross; / My countrymen Kiltartans's poor!

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