Because there is safety in derision I talked about an appar… - William Butler Yeats

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Because there is safety in derision
I talked about an apparition,
I took no trouble to convince,
Or seem plausible to a man of sense.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He compiled the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

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Alternative Names: W. B. Yeats • William Yeats • W.B. Yeats • WBY

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I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

I heard the old, old men say,
'Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.'
They had hands like claws, and their knees
Were twisted like the old thorn-trees
By the waters.
I heard the old, old men say,
'All that's beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.'

Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold...

Because there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible to a man of sense. - William Butler Yeats

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