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The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem

#Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire #WilliamButlerYeats

Write for the ear, so that you may be instantly understood as when an actor or folk singer stands before an audience #WilliamButlerYeats

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead #WilliamButlerYeats

I have spent my life in clearing out of poetry every phrase written for the eye & bringing all back to syntax that is for ear alone #WilliamButlerYeats

Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading & hoping all #WilliamButlerYeats

An intellectual hatred is the worst #WilliamButlerYeats