I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it ma… - William Butler Yeats

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I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

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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Never to have lived is best, ancient
writers say;
Never to have drawn the breath of life,
never to have looked into the eye of
day;
The second best’s a gay good night and
quickly turn away.

Down the mountain walls
From where pan’s cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.

And her hair was a folded flower
And the quiet of love in her feet.

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns. - William Butler Yeats

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