More from William Butler Yeats

  1. They say such different things at school.
  2. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is lo…
  3. Opinion is not worth a rush.
  4. 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 b…
  5. Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes.
  6. I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod…
  7. We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are b…
  8. All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.

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