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William Butler Yeats
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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to Irish poet William Butler Yeats, born on this date in 1865, "If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. June Thoughts
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Conservatives, who reputedly have lumps of coal where their hearts should be, have fallen in love. So have many people who are not doctrinal conservatives. The world is a sweeter place because Sarah Palin has increased the quantity of love, but this is not a reliable foundation for John McCain's campaign. The tech bubble was followed by the housing bubble, which has been topped by the Palin bubble. Bubbles will always be with us because irrational exuberance always will be. Its symptom is the assumption that old limits have yielded to undreamt-of possibilities: The Dow will always rise, as will housing prices, and rapture about a running mate can be decisive in a presidential election.
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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats, born on this date in 1865, "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. ***
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On April 2, 1916 William Butler Yeats's At the Hawk's Well received its first performance in Lady Emerald Cunard's drawing room in Cavendish Square London before an invited guests included Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. This may have been the only afternoon on which Yeats, Eliot, and Pound were together in the same room. Samuel Beckett wrote a play, like At the Hawk's Well, about waiting. In Happy Days Winnie utters the first line of At the Hawk's Well, "I call to the eye of the mind," one of many literary allusions that she recalls--or rather, that Beckett recalls on her behalf. Here, Donoghue draws a loose connection between these occasions to suggest a literary context for the relation he proposes to describe: Yeats and Eliot, Yeats and Pound.
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GOV. Jerry Brown gives great speeches with unusual quotes that never let the listener forget he is a former seminarian. In that spirit during his State of the State address Thursday, Brown quoted jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, told a story from Genesis and marveled at the "mysterious cycle in human events" observed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. He moved on to Michel de Montaigne and Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
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Irish poet William Butler Yeats once said, "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. How true that is. However, I would even say that Yeats did not go far enough. For too long in Maine, we have not only limited ourselves to filling the buckets, we have been using them to put out the fires. Maine needs an education policy that lights fires in the minds of young people.
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War is hell, but it has the advantage of clarity. That's why it's the metaphor of choice, even of peaceniks, in so many peacetime arguments. No one wants to argue from the mushy middle. Polarities clarify arguments and marshal facts in opposition. William Butler Yeats famously observed that "the center cannot hold," but the center can shift, and arguments over education have shifted from center to right. Maybe the right can't hold, either: One important new argument sets two prominent conservatives against each other, and it's a fascinating faceoff. The antagonists are old friends and allies in the war over how best to teach our children.
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Any fan of poetry will recognize at once the title of Margaret Roach's new book as part of a line -- a beautiful one -- from William Butler Yeats' verse "The Lake Isle of Innisfree": "And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings. The poem is about removal -- about getting entirely away from one's life, slathered as it is with socialization and consumption, inessentials. In the poet's view, this meant fleeing to a place one hears most truly "in the deep heart's core," even when one is trudging along "on the roadway, or on the pavements grey."
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The Irish poet William Butler Yeats once wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Margery Bakalar, more than any other teacher I have ever had, lit a fire in me for poetry, drama, fiction, good writing and education in general.
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Kirsch delves into the life and works of poets William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Wystan Hugh Auden. In Pound's, Kirsch observes that just like Yeats's, the poet's divinities are bloody and violent, presences to be admired but also feared. Kirsch contends that one can see the possible dangers of Pound's style of mythical thinking, just like in "The Return," where Pound's fantasy of a perfect society became an obsession.
