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William Butler Yeats – irlandzki poeta, dramaturg i filozof, tworzący w języku angielskim, czołowy twórca i działacz literackiego Odrodzenia Irlandzkiego. Motywy swych utworów czerpał z wczesnośredniowiecznej literatury irlandzkiej i folkloru, pozostawał jednocześnie pod wpływem romantycznego wizjonerstwa Blake’a, okultyzmu, prerafaelitów i francuskiego symbolizmu; laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury . Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Czerwiec 1865 – 28. Styczeń 1939
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“O but we dreamed to mend
Whatever mischief seemed
To afflict mankind, but now
That winds of winter blow
Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.”

W.B. Yeats książka The Tower

III, st. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/

“Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”

W.B. Yeats

Źródło: Crossways (1889), The Song Of The Happy Shepherd, l. 57.

“Come let us mock at the great
That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.”

W.B. Yeats książka The Tower

V, st. 1 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/

“Somewhere beyond the curtain
Of distorting days
Lives that lonely thing
That shone before these eyes
Targeted, trod like Spring.”

W.B. Yeats książka The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Quarrel In Old Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1567/, st. 2 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

“Whatever flames upon the night
Man’s own resinous heart has fed.”

W.B. Yeats książka The Tower

II, st. 2 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/

“It’s certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat
Whereby the Horn of plenty is undone.”

W.B. Yeats książka Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 4 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/

“Hands, do what you’re bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.”

W.B. Yeats

The Balloon Of The Mind http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1595/ <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“Never had I more
Excited, passionate, fantastical
Imagination, nor an ear and eye
That more expected the impossible.”

W.B. Yeats książka The Tower

The Tower http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1700/, I <br class="br">The Tower (1928)

“Because there is safety in derision
I talked about an apparition,
I took no trouble to convince,
Or seem plausible to a man of sense.”

W.B. Yeats

The Apparitions http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1589/, st. 1 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)

“Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.”

W.B. Yeats

Long-Legged Fly http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1525/, refrain <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)

“Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.”

W.B. Yeats

The Cat And The Moon http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1599/ <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.”

W.B. Yeats książka The Winding Stair and Other Poems

V, st. 2 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”

W.B. Yeats

Speech (7 June 1923), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Censorship of Films Bill. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0001/S.0001.192306070006.html

“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.”

W.B. Yeats książka The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1471/, st. 2 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

“Locke sank into a swoon;
The Garden died;
God took the spinning-jenny
Out of his side.”

W.B. Yeats książka The Tower

Fragments http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1484/, I <br class="br">The Tower (1928)

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