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Come away, O human child
To the waters and the wild
With a hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand (Yeats)

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2020-04-03

1957: Death of Jack Butler Yeats. 3rd most expensive Irish artist & Olympic medallist; "The Liffey Swim"! Siblings: WB, Lily, Lolly. Father: artist John Butler. Landscapes & figures, mainly from W, esp boyhood home of https://t.co/A9QDRq35Ne https://t.co/1r50yBQebO

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2020-03-28

“Do they die? Blake saw a fairy’s funeral; but in Ireland we say they are immortal."

—W.B. Yeats

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2020-03-18

"Come away, oh, human child!
To the woods and waters wild,
With a fairy hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B. Yeats

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2020-03-18

"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand"
~The Stolen Child by WB Yeats

Art: Arthur Rackham

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2020-03-17

Here's another nice one, a really nice boardwalk overlooking Lough Gill and Innisfree . Fully appropriate considering the expressed by William Butler
https://t.co/VrJtKFIOUh

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2020-03-17

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. -Yeats 💚🌈☘️

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2020-03-17

1907: Death of John O’Leary, lead Fenian. (law & medicine) but didn't take degree. In IRB; sentence 20 yrs penal servitude. In exile lived mainly in Paris & visited US. "Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;" WB Yeats. https://t.co/wa1LtQkuz2

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2020-03-16

“I bring to you
with reverent hands
the books of my numberless dreams”

W.B. Yeats

Artwork by Sir John Lavery
Miss Auras. The Red Book
1892

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2020-03-16

VAMPIRIC BIRD WOMEN Folklorist & poet W. B. wrote of a ghost ship of undead sailors near the world's end who discover an island of shadowless women who manifest as birds (The Shadowy Waters, 1904). Yeats read about during his occult phase

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2020-03-06

In the dim kingdom there is a great abundance of all excellent things. There is more love there than upon the earth. There is more dancing there than upon the earth.
There is more treasure there than upon the earth.


Image:

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2020-02-17

Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953), comédienne, militante nationaliste irlandaise, féministe. Mère de S. MacBride, co-fondateur d’Amnesty International. Amie du poète William Butler Yeats.
➡️The Gonne-Yeats letters.
➡️A.Jordan, The Yeats, Gonne, Macbride.
➡️O.Ross, Her secret rose.

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2020-02-04

叶芝诗画。
P1《Politics》
P2《The White Birds》
P3《Before The World Was Made》
P4《The Stolen Child》

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2020-02-01

&
“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams;
Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
William Butler Yeats

🖌Dorian Vallejo🇺🇸

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2020-01-31

TS Eliot remarked of Yeats that he was "one of those few whose history is the history of their own time".
But we might safely add, "and of our time".
Hear more at Tuesday evening’s lecture. See our events page for more info👉https://t.co/rjXBcIMSga

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2020-01-27

“I am certain that the water, the water of the seas and of lakes and of mist and rain, has all but made the after its image. Images form themselves in our minds perpetually as if they were reflected in some pool.“ -


Image: Amelia Jane Murray

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2020-01-27

“We gave ourselves up in old times to and saw the Gods everywhere. We talked to them face to face, and the stories of that communion are so many they outnumber all the like stories of all the rest of Europe.” -


Image: Arthur John Black

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2020-01-26

I'm The Thespian - Variant, Poet

Lives in shabby cottage overflowing with books, presents as either treacly optimist or grimdark cynic at unpredictable intervals, quotes Shakespeare/Dickinson/Yeats et damn cetera at EVERYONE. Obvious victim.

I too aspire to be the Gardener.

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2020-01-25

" THE WORLD IS FULL OF MAGIC THINGS, PATIENTLY WAITING FOR OUR SENSES TO GROW SHARPER ." W. B. Yeats

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2020-01-06