“ To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's… Christopher Hitchens
“ ...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four o'clock on the… W.B. Yeats
“ I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core. W.B. Yeats
“ Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: You were silly like us. Christopher Bram
“ But the power in this case is real indeed. You doubt the mystery and power of these aircraft and their markings? They are aeons old and yet they still operate!” “You’ve seen them fly? Where do they go… John C. Wright
“ Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that's lovely isBut a… W.B. Yeats
“ An Irish Airman foresees his DeathI Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross,My… W.B. Yeats
“ He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is… Edmund Wilson
