“The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men, tossing on their beds, Rhymed out in love’s despair To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear. They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end; Wear out the carpet with their shoes Earning respect; have no strange friend; If they have sinned nobody knows. Lord, what would they say Should their Catullus walk that way?” WritingAgePoetryPerfectionCriticismCriticsFrustrationCreative ProcessInferiorityLove PoetryEruditionScholarsAnnotation Book:The Wild Swans at Coole Source: The Wild Swans at Coole
“Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. (Sailing to Byzantium)” AgeEternityAging Book:The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“[...] when, if the tale's true, The Pestle of the moon That pounds up all anew Brings me to birth again To find what once I had And know what once I have known, Until I am driven mad” AgeYouthMoonReincarnationRebirth Author:W.B. Yeats