“When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep” PoetryReadingBooksOld Age Book:The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“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.” ReadingMetaphorHenry JamesBoring Books Author:W.B. Yeats
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated earth? Nay, are there not moods which shall find no expression unless there be men who dare to mix heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland together, or even to set the heads of beasts to the bodies of men, or to thrust the souls of men into the heart of rocks? Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet." (A Teller of Tales)” StoriesReadingLiteratureFantasyBooksWordsStorytellers Book:The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore Source: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore