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• There where the course is,
  Delight makes all of the one mind,
  The riders upon the galloping horses,
  The crowd that closes in behind.

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  Horse, Racing, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.73, Library of Alexandria

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• Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
  Heaven and Earth out of their places,
  That in the same calamity
  Brother and brother, friend and friend,
  Family and family,
  City and city may contend.

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  Brother, Struggle, Cities

  William Butler Yeats (2012). “The Winding Stair and Other Poems: A Facsimile Edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• My curse on plays
  That have to be set up in fifty ways,
  On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
  Theater business, management of men.

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  War, Drama, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

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• Between extremities
  Man runs his course;
  A brand, or flaming breath,
  Comes to destroy
  All those antinomies
  Of day and night.

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  Running, Night, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• I, too, await
  The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
  When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
  Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

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  Stars, Hate, Wind

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Education is not filling

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  Filling

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• The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

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  Triumph, World, Way

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• Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

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  Fire, Filling, Lighting A Fire

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• For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

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  Men, Loses

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.289, Wordsworth Editions

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• For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

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  Running, Stars, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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  Wisdom, Oil, Dancing

  "Among School Children" l. 57 (1928) See Quarles 1

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• The common breeds the common,
  A lout begets a lout,
  So when I take on half a score
  I knock their heads about.

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  Half, Violence, Common

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.827, Simon and Schuster

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• All things fall and are built again,
  And those that build them again are gay.

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  Fall, Gay, Rebirth

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

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• How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

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  Love, Girl, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• Time can but make her beauty over again.

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  Appreciation, Her Beauty

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

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  Art, Men, Progress

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.364

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