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• I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

  William Butler Yeats

  Faces, Spit

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

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  Dream, Mirrors, Hands

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• The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
  The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
  Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
  Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
  Great nations blossom above,
  A slave bows down to a slave.

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  Loyalty, Pride, Soldier

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.581, Simon and Schuster

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• My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

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  Life, Truth, Imagination

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

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  Hate, Fate, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.115, Penguin

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• We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

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  Brother, Children, Husband

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Man has created death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Biodiversity

  'Death'

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• The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

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  Philosophy, Fighting, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

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  Future, Years, Sea

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

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• You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
  Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
  The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
  And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

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  Men, House, Dancer

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

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  Ideas, Needs, Stories

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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