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What does it mean?
Worldly alarms fade when one finds peace and love in the arms of another.
In plain terms
Fear and worry disappear when you find love and rest.
What can you take from it?
Love provides a refuge from the world's chaos.

Where it applies

  • romantic refuge
  • seeking comfort
  • war time peace

Putting it to work

  • prioritize love
  • find safe harbor
  • ignore external noise

Questions to consider

  • Does love shield you from reality?
  • Is peace worth the cost?

Another view

Peace in love can be temporary or illusory.

More from William Butler Yeats

  1. But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.

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  3. '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.'

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