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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
A shudder in the loins engenders there the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dead.
A woman can be proud and stiff when on love intent; but love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement; for nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
Accursed who brings to light of day the writin... (more William Butler Yeats quotes)
Yeats's aristocratic attitudes made him no friend of the political left or even of democracy, and in the 1930s he wrote some marching songs for General Eoin O'Duffy's Blueshirts, a right wing political movement. However, when he was invited to visit Madrid in 1937, he replied with a letter supporting the Republicans against Franco's Fascists. He also distanced himself from the Nazis.
The American poet Ezra Pound called Yeats "the only poet ... (more William Butler Yeats trivia)
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