My friends in Ireland sometimes ask me when I am going to write a really national poem or romance, and by a national poem or romance I understand them to mean a poem or romance founded upon some famous moment of Irish history, and built up out of the thoughts and feelings which move the greater number of patriotic Irishmen. I on the other hand believe that poetry and romance cannot be made by the most conscientious study of famous moments and of the thoughts and feelings of others, but only by looking into that little, infinite, faltering, eternal flame that we call ourselves.
La rosa de los alquimistas : Poemas y prosas de lo oculto
W. B. Yeats
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection : Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Siegfried Sassoon, John Keats, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ted Hughes, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Wilfred Owen
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
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John Sherman; and, Dhoya
W. B. Yeats
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John Sherman; and, Dhoya
W. B. Yeats
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The Cutting of an Agate
W. B. Yeats
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The Hour Glass
W. B. Yeats
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Reveries over Childhood and Youth
W. B. Yeats
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The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays
Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats
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The Poetry of War
Dylan Thomas, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Ted Hughes, John Betjeman
audiobook
Reveries over Childhood and Youth
W. B. Yeats
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