I did not, but i saw a young girl, and she had the walk of a queen.
W.B. YeatsEven the wisest man grows tense/with some sort of violence/before he can accomplish fate,/know his work or choose his mate.
W.B. YeatsNow as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me “weak” or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life…If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book [The Works of William Blake, with Edwin Ellis, 1893], nor would The Countess Kathleen [stage play, 1892] have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
W.B. YeatsChance and Destiny have between them woven two-thirds of all history, and of the history of Ireland wellnigh the whole. The literature of a nation, on the other hand, is spun out of its heart. If you would know Ireland - body and soul - you must read its poems and stories. They came into existence to please nobody but the people of Ireland. Government did not make them on the one hand, nor bad seasons on the other. They are Ireland talking to herself.
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Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
Oh, when may it suffice?
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
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Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave
(September 1913)
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What's the use of held note or a held line
That cannot be assailed for reassurance?
They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart.
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