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“What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.”

World Has Beens Made Done Effort Masters Genius Cost Bird Painful Spontaneous Nests

Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.”

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.”

World Littles Made Environment Achieve Tragedy Protection Punishment Great Things Pleasant Hostile Nests Defiance Defying Hostile Environment

Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society