William Butler Yeats

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    All think what other people think;
    All know the man their neighbor knows.
    Lord, what would they say
    Did their Catullus walk that way?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Two heavy trestles, and a board
    Where Sato’s gift, a changeless sword,
    By pen and paper lies,
    That it may moralise
    My days out of their aimlessness.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    What made the ceiling waterproof?
    Landor’s tarpaulin on the roof.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Through light-obliterating garden foliage what magic drum?
    Down limb and breast or down that glimmering belly move his mouth and sinewy tongue.
    What from the forest came? What beast has licked its young?
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)