70th anniversary of Yeats death today.

[sandandfoam]

I think he was the greatest poet ever.

CAST A COLD EYE ON LIFE, ON DEATH
HORSEMEN, PASS BY!

From todays paper
The road to immortality - The Irish Times - Wed, Jan 28, 2009

 

[Falvlun]

"Come O human child, to the waters and the wild, with a faery hand in hand; for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

My favorite line of all time.

 

[Sunstone]

Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.

 

[Renji]

I think he was the greatest poet ever.



From todays paper
The road to immortality - The Irish Times - Wed, Jan 28, 2009

No offense to you, but now that Yeats is already dead, I think Sunstone already replaced him with the title of the "greatest poet ever." Or maybe the fever I experienced few days ago comes back to me this time!

 

[Guitar's Cry]

"Stolen Child" is a favorite.

Did you all know he dabbled in the Order of the Golden Dawn, but butted heads with Aleister Crowley?

 

[Quagmire]

"... he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy".