“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”― William Butler Yeats
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Quote du jour
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Quote du jour
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
-William Butler Yeats
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Quote du jour
May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
-William Butler Yeats, from A Prayer for my Daughter
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
-William Butler Yeats, from A Prayer for my Daughter
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