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«We had fed the heart on fantasies,The heart's grown brutal from the fare.»
«What do you think of when alone at night?Do not the things your mothers spoke about,Before they took the candle from the bedside,Rush up into the mind and master it,Till you believe in them against your will?»
«One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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deliberate, farther, hears, howls, orderly, primitive, shiver, shivering, shivers, sinks, supernatural, supernatural being, terror
«I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough for a man and a woman to understand each other; and in this case to understand is to love.»
«She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.»
«See how the sacred old flamingoes come,Painting with shadow all the marble steps:Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perchesWithin the temple, devious walking, madeTo wander by their melancholy minds.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
aged, Coming of age, devious, flamingo, flamingoes, painting, perch, perched, perches, steps, temple, The temple, wander, wonted
«Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
abandoned, Age to Age, heroic, modified, religious truth, statement, traditional
«Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Temptation
| Keywords:
conquering, endured, fund, funding, Moral right, nobler, represents, trial, weathered
«I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all . . . like an opera.»
«The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
dried, fascination, fascinations, rent, sap, saps, spontaneous, vein, veins
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