If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
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Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.William Butler Yeats
You have to die because no soul has passedThe heavenly threshold since you have opened school,But grass grows there, and rust upon the hingeAnd they are lonely that must keep the watch.
William Butler Yeats
Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
William Butler Yeats
An intellectual hatred is the worst.
William Butler Yeats
A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.
William Butler Yeats
I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.
William Butler Yeats
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