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bs2 · @bsmall2
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> ... to be happy one must delight like nature in mere profusion, in mere abundance, in making and doing things,.. one must not be among those that would have prayed in old times in some chapel of the Star, but among those who would have prayed under the shadow of the Green Tree, and on the wet stones of the Well, among the worshippers of natural abundance.



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#ideasofgoodandevil #abundance #greentreewetwell #greentreewetstones #williammorris #yeats

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bs2 · @bsmall2
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"The Green Tree and the Wet Stones of the Well"

on how was trying to replace the dead tree (the cross?) of one sort of Christianity with a came to mind while looking at this FB meme.

"May our common home overflow with life one again".

#prayer #worlddayofprayer #careofcreation #abundance #OurCommonHome #LaudatoSi #popefrancis #faithofabundance #williammorris #yeats

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Daniel Kelly Music · @yasslad
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#paganmusic #yeats #kipling #pagan

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handmade ghost · @handmade_ghost
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Happy William Butler Yeats's birthday to all who celebrate!

I don't know about anyone else, but as for me,--though I, too, am old with wandering--I plan to "pluck till time and times are done,/
The silver apples of the moon,/
The golden apples of the sun."

So, it's off to the hazel wood for me. This is my favorite local path that leads there:

#poetry #yeats #fairyland #comeawayohumanchild

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Nia Molinari · @NiaMolinari
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PREVAIL by Greg Olear - Sunday Pages: "The Second Coming"

Sunday Pages on @gregolear 's PREVAIL:

"There were rough beasts in Yeats’s day, too. History is littered with the carcasses of rough beasts."

gregolear.substack.com/p/sunda

#literature #poetry #yeats #politics

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bs2 · @bsmall2
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Lines from Bob Marley:

> Where the living is hardest...

> They made their world so hard..

and lines from Yeats:

> The winds that awakened the stars are blowing through my blood.

> Now words that called up the lightning
Are hurtling through my heart.

recur in my mind the same sort of way. I still can't get the un-heart just-read poem lines to remain as exact as the often-heard performed-song lines though.

#MaidQuiet #onedrop #concretejungle #bobmarley #songs #poetry #wbyeats #yeats

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🇺🇦 Sean Prophet ⚛ · @sean
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Cold there possibly be a more alliterative apocalyptic poem than "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats?

It's a rich mine of metaphors of pointless destruction at the hands of a reckless humanity. "The widening gyre." "The center cannot hold." "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." "A gaze blank and pitiless as the Sun."

As we spiral toward fascism, the poem is more relevant today than when it was written a century ago during World War I. Can anything save us this time?

The last line is the most terrifying of all. "What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" <shudder>

Specifically the word "slouching" has taken on new relevance, as I've seen it used to connote horror (without reference to the poem) in several recent think-pieces about AI. Wrong target. The correct target is wealth and power (that might use AI to further tighten their grip). But that's off limits because the rich are righteous, doncha know? <cough> "They worked hard for what they have, you lazy bum!"

What is it about a "slouching" beast that is so terrifying? Well, it's not just a predator. That we could deal with, if we worked together. But the "rough beast," with its "slow thighs" emerging from the "Spiritus Mundi?"

It's us, and we are powerless to stop ourselves. That would mean we'd all have to admit our self-deceptions--that we've led ourselves here--and ain't nobody got time for THAT.

"Slouching." "Whatever." "Chill out, man, lighten up." "That's just like, your opinion, man."

Our doom is all because we can't be bothered to care, to sit up straight. To see ourselves and our defaults. To hold ourselves accountable. We're so overfed and intoxicated and surfeited with utter nonsense, we can't move an inch to get out of our own way. Invalid wireheads on life-support, paralyzed in the headlights of a runaway train. Everyone sees it coming, but we look away. We're still slouching, can't move, collapsed of our own weight. So heavy with denial, our own bones have broken.

"The best lack all conviction." ("Both sides.") "The worst are full of passionate intensity." ("MAGA").

As Neil Peart said, "The slackjaw gaze of true profanity, feels more like surrender than defeat."

A rough beast, indeed.

#yeats #fascism #maga #slouching #bothsides #roughbeast

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serrq · @serrq
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He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats, 1899

youtube.com/watch?v=lNeq7Dakv_

#poetry #yeats #heaven

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serrq · @serrq
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Egli desidera il tessuto del cielo

Se avessi il drappo ricamato del cielo,
intessuto dell’oro e dell’argento e della luce,
i drappi dai colori chiari e scuri
del giorno e della notte
dai mezzi colori dell’alba e del tramonto,
stenderei quei drappi sotto i tuoi piedi:
invece, essendo povero, ho soltanto sogni;
e i miei sogni ho steso sotto i tuoi piedi;
cammina leggera perché
cammini sopra i miei sogni.

William Butler Yeats, 1899

#poesia #yeats #cielo #drappo

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Barbara Pittman 💬 · @grinnpidgeon
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I’ve given up on removing the 9 yr old whipped cream stain. It’ll take some heavy weights to flatten the roll marks in this area rug— and are pretty heavy, plus a little

#yeats #melville #shakespeare #pynchon

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #kaannos #kaannoslyriikka #kaannosruno #kaannosrunoja #kaannosrunous #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannoksia #runokaannos #runot #runous #suomennos

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #kaannos #kaannoslyriikka #kaannosrunous #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannoksia #runokaannos #runosuomennos #runot #runous #runoutta #suomennos

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #kaannos #kaannoslyriikka #kaannosrunous #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannoksia #runokaannos #runosuomennos #runot #runous #runoutta #suomennoksia #suomennos

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #kaannos #kaannoslyriikka #kaannosruno #kaannosrunoja #kaannosrunous #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannoksia #runokaannos #runosuomennos #runot #runous #runoutta #suomennos

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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KANNUSTIN
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)

Pidät sitä kauheana että himo ja raivo
tanssisivat huomion yli vanhuuteni;
ne eivät olleet sellainen vitsaus kun olin nuori;
mitä muuta minulla on kannustamaan itseni lauluun?

satruno.blogspot.com/2023/01/k

#wbyeats #yeats #runo #runoja

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #kaannos #kaannoslyriikka #kaannosrunous #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannoksia #runokaannos #runosuomennos #runot #runous #runoutta #suomennos

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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KIITOLLISUUS TUNTEMATTOMILLE VOIMILLE
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)

Mitä he ryhtyivät tekemään
sen toteuttivat;
kaikki asiat riippuvat kuin kastepisara
ruohonkorrella.

satruno.blogspot.com/2023/01/k

#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #runo #runoja #runot #runous #runoutta

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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HÄNEN HUOLENSA
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)

Maa kauneuteen pukeutunut
kevättä palaavaa odottaa.
Kaiken tosirakkauden täytyy kuolla...

satruno.blogspot.com/2023/01/h

#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #kaannos #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannoksia #runokaannos #runot #runous

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #nobel #nobelinkirjallisuudenpalkinto #nobelinpalkinto #runo #runoja #runokaannoksia #runokaannos #runosuomennot #runot #runous #runoutta #suomennoksia #suomennos

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#wbyeats #williambutleryeats #yeats #kaannos #kaannoslyriikka #kaannosrunous #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannoksia #runokaannos #runosuomennos #runot #runous #runoutta #suomennos

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