Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
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O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

~ From “Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats

#dualism #mortality #byzantium #williambutleryeats

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Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
904 followers · 3507 posts · Server mas.to

O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

~ From “Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats

#mortality #byzantium #williambutleryeats

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helices · @helices
118 followers · 5244 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

O body swayed to ,
O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?

#music #williambutleryeats

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· @itbeobachter
124 followers · 962 posts · Server nrw.social

Literarischer

„Hinter der Maske ist immer ein lebendes Gesicht.“

Geburt 1865

#13juni #williambutleryeats #syngestod

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Sampath Pāṇini ® ✅ · @paninid
678 followers · 6750 posts · Server mastodon.world

“For the psychologist, Wilfred Bion, negative capability was about not giving in to the temptation to continually engage with the safety of the familiar.”

rachelbotsman.substack.com/p/h

#psychology #NegativeCapability #safety #familiarity #unknown #williambutleryeats #shakespeare

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iamBullivant · @bullivant
540 followers · 3119 posts · Server mastodon.ie

Jack Butler Yeats, brother of WB Yeats and a painter who developed an intensely expressionist style, died on 28th March 1957. He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett.

#ireland #irishhistory #irishart #painting #jackbutleryeats #williambutleryeats #wbyeats #samuelbeckett #onthisday

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helices · @helices
113 followers · 5010 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

And what if excess of
Bewildered them till they died?

#love #williambutleryeats

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Tony Pennino · @beatnikprof
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Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
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Now shall I make my soul,
Compelling it to study
In a learned school
Till the wreck of body,
Slow decay of blood,
Testy delirium
Or dull decrepitude,
Or what worse evil come—
The death of friends, or death
Of every brilliant eye
That made a catch in the breath—
Seem but the clouds of the sky
When the horizon fades,
Or a bird's sleepy cry
Among the deepening shades.

~ William Butler Yeats, from “The Tower”

#thetower #williambutleryeats

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TrishF · @ThymeFlies
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Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
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My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.

While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

~ W. B. Yeats, from “Vacillation”

#ecstasy #solitude #williambutleryeats

Last updated 2 years ago

Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
432 followers · 2123 posts · Server mas.to

My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.

While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

~ W. B. Yeats, from “Vacillation”

#ecstasy #solitude #williambutleryeats

Last updated 2 years ago

Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
432 followers · 2120 posts · Server mas.to

My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.

While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

~ W. B. Yeats, from “Vacillation”

#ecstasy #solitude #williambutleryeats

Last updated 2 years ago

Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
428 followers · 2104 posts · Server mas.to

From man's blood-sodden heart are sprung
Those branches of the night and day
Where the gaudy moon is hung.
What's the meaning of all song?
'Let all things pass away.'

~ W. B. Yeats, from “Vacillation”

#georgeberkeley #SicTransitGloriaMundi #williambutleryeats

Last updated 2 years ago

Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
427 followers · 2092 posts · Server mas.to

From man's blood-sodden heart are sprung
Those branches of the night and day
Where the gaudy moon is hung.
What's the meaning of all song?
'Let all things pass away.'

~ W. B. Yeats, from “Vacillation”

#SicTransitGloriaMundi #williambutleryeats

Last updated 2 years ago

Terry Grundy, FRSA · @terrygrundy
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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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