See T. S. Eliot, Yeats the Poet and W. H. Auden, Yeats the Poet.
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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul,' I cried. 'My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.'William Butler Yeats
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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I carry the sun in a golden cup, The moon in a silver bag.
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Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
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Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes. The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. The Cat and the Moon.
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