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W.B. YEATS They sleep not, except they have done mischief; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall For they eat the bread of wickedness, And they drink the wine of violence.† (source)
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When the poet W.B. Yeats stood on this platform more than seventy years ago, Ireland was emerging from the throes of a traumatic civil war that had followed fast on the heels of a war of independence fought against the British.† (source)
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W.B. Yeats, A Woman Young and Old† (source)
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What was that line from Yeats, about the bemused Chinese sages?† (source)
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Sol Weintraub asked, "William Butler Yeats?"† (source)
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B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"† (source)
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You know that part of Yeats's The Second Coming' where it's, like, The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity'?† (source)
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—William Butler Yeats, "Easter, 1916".† (source)
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Nevertheless, until the British government caved in to the strong-arm tactics of the Ulster loyalist workers after the Sunningdale Conference in 1974, a well-disposed mind could still hope to make sense of the circumstances, to balance what was promising with what was destructive and do what W.B. Yeats had tried to do half a century before, namely, "to hold in a single thought reality and justice."† (source)
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—from THE ROSE OF BATTLE, W. B. Yeats Nothing is easier than self-deceit.† (source)
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At fifteen he became an assistant teacher at the local boys' school before heading off to England (like every other Irish poet, Mam said), where he mingled with the likes of Yeats and Shaw.† (source)
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"The Rose of Battle," by Mr. William Butler Yeats.† (source)
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W. H. Auden, in his great elegy "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" (1940), emphasizes the coldness of the day Yeats died.† (source)
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Maybe I could pull some Yeats out or something.† (source)
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In his poetry, William Butler Yeats often contrasts the freedom of birds with the earthbound cares and woes of humans.† (source)
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Nor in this by W. B. Yeats: "The character who delights us may commit murder like Macbeth ...and yet we will rejoice in every happiness that comes to him."† (source)
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