Yeats was the greatest poet of our times ... certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.
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Last seasons fruit is eaten And the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail. For last years words belong to last years language And next years words await another voice.Thomas Stearns Eliot
And I must borrow every changing shape To find expression.
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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Learning together.
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That was my way of putting itnot very satisfactory A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
Thomas Stearns Eliot
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.
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The Civil War is not ended I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
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