William Butler Yeats | William Butler Yeats
Mar.17.2010
The Irish…romantic? Before you roll your eyes and cluck at the idea of the romantic Irish, consider the fact that the basis for any great romance is the language by which that most enduring of all emotions – love – is conveyed. And if there’s one thing the Irish have always excelled at, it’s...
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May.11.2009
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats [published after the Great War of 1914-1918]
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon can not hear the falconer.Things fall apart; the center can not hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe...
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Dec.18.2008
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
William Butler Yeats
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