Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
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Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.William Butler Yeats
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.
William Butler Yeats
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.
William Butler Yeats
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
William Butler Yeats
At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit.
William Butler Yeats
Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their prideThey have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their prideI made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied.
William Butler Yeats
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