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W.B. Yeats
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„Come let us mock at the wise;With all those calendars whereonThey fixed old aching eyes,They never saw how seasons run,And now but gape at the sun.“
„What were all the world’s alarmsTo mighty Paris when he foundSleep upon a golden bedThat first dawn in Helen’s arms?“
„The night can sweat with terror as beforeWe pieced our thoughts into philosophy,And planned to bring the world under a rule,Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.“
„I have met them at close of dayComing with vivid facesFrom counter or desk among greyEighteenth-century houses.I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words,Or have lingered awhile and saidPolite meaningless words.“
„Much did I rage when young,Being by the world oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds the parting guest.“
„Nothing that we love over-muchIs ponderable to our touch.“
„O but we dreamed to mendWhatever mischief seemedTo afflict mankind, but nowThat winds of winter blowLearn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.“
„Whatever flames upon the nightMan’s own resinous heart has fed.“
„The woods of Arcady are dead,And over is their antique joy;Of old the world on dreaming fed;Grey Truth is now her painted toy;Yet still she turns her restless head.“
„Words alone are certain good.“
„Test every work of intellect or faith,And everything that your own hands have wroughtAnd call those works extravagance of breathThat are not suited for such men as comeProud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.“
„All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.“
„The years like great black oxen tread the world,And God the herdsman goads them on behind,And I am broken by their passing feet.“
„Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.“
„My temptation is quiet.Here at life’s endNeither loose imagination,Nor the mill of the mindConsuming its rag and bone,Can make the truth known.“
„Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.“
„The friends that have it I do wrongWhenever I remake a songShould know what issue is at stake,It is myself that I remake.“
„Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.“
„I had thought, seeing how bitter is that windThat shakes the shutter, to have brought to mindAll those that manhood tried, or childhood lovedOr boyish intellect approved,With some appropriate commentary on each;Until imagination broughtA fitter welcome; but a thoughtOf that late death took all my heart for speech.“
„Minute by minute they live:The stone’s in the midst of all.“
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