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I'm very grateful to have any audience to tell tonight because things there has been some are 607. We didn't get it now and for

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a while we didn't have any place to me that things seem to strike. Now, I have a varied program tonight for much of which went

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to Mrs. Kitchener who gave me some very good suggestions and some suggestions I'm holding over to another meeting.

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The next meeting of the ways to make things clear will be two weeks from tonight. First I'm going to read from Emily Dickinson. Then I'm going to read from Yates.

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And in connection with that, I'm going to read a passage from our yogas, his new book, new and entertaining book of reminiscences.

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Then I'm going to read from it. And as yet unpublished book of Edmondson, ally costumers, Customers collection of poems

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called mine harvest, that will appear April 28. And then I'll close the usual for the few things in my own,

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if we have time for such a program. I also had programs and standards of Shakespeare, vagueness, some browning, but that I think

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will lead to another time. Now Andy postpone but not canister. Now I have several selections from browning. I'd like to read off Familia,

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that's always worth hearing. I think. That'll be next time. Well, Emily Dickinson is always worth hearing.

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Emily Dickinson has a curious history in my life years ago and I was an undergraduate at Harvard College, Emily Dickinson had been

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completely forgotten. And somebody gave me a book of hers. And I was effective. And it was just before the

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European war broke out. And I read this very strange for him. I can't remember if it was a description of a thunderstorm,

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but the curious thing about the poem was that it was equally a description or a Baha. And it ended when

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nature tends against herself. Where an Austrian, and just after that, we had, the Grand Duke of Austria had been shot.

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And that was started a European war. But since Emily Dickinson wrote that poem, say she died in 1886, in the seventies, it seemed their lack of a prophecy

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and the time I confess hadn't made much sense, my 18 year old man, but I investigated further and

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more and more, I came to life. I came very enthusiastic. And 1922 wrote an article for the old Freeman's,

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an Emily Dickinson, which I think was the opening gun and the great revival. But it's no exaggeration to say that except for very few scattered people,

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about 950 and she's been completely forgotten. Although when we first issued nearly a decade after her death,

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I can now Higginson. And this is I shouldn't forget her name. I knew her well, the edit them that even remember the name I'm searching for.

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Mrs. Todd. Thank you. Mrs. Todd, they've brought the first value about 1893, that was 70, has asked

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Emily Dickinson's desk, made a great success. We went through several editions and there were three series of files they brought out.

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But for some reason, we are now completely forgotten. For a period of about 15 or 20 years. It was a strange history.

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Well, then after writing that essay, I began to, bit by bit to turn against analytic and center. The time I wrote a letter to Robert Frost,

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I was almost again, it's froth that choose to excentric for comfort. And now bit by bit,

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I come back to her again. But I think this is my final judgment because it's about in the middle. I'm enthusiastic about some of the things,

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others I find a little. Tonight I'm going to read some that I think very best. And some of them I have two feet from

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memory because they're not in this book. And as you see, I had to bring almost library anyway, and I didn't want to add another value.

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I suppose Emily Dickinson was the most natural mystic we've ever had. We think of Amazon is a great mystic and he was,

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but he was modest, studied mystic mother, logician. And of course he was directly influenced so much by

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the Hindu Vedanta if literature. Emily Dickinson was indirect way through the transcendental right? Time.

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But she was born with some curious pulsation. From the essence of things, from the spiritual, the Platonic world will say.

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And from the very beginning, she seems to seeing things in life under the aspect of eternity, although she didn't concentrate

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on her own towers and become very introspective until she was about 25. But she was never one to

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travel out of her own orbit. She stayed more and more at home, sign, as you know, she didn't leave her house at all.

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And yet she had that rapt attention. Immortality right through her life, that rapt attention, which brought out, nevertheless,

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every small detail of the landscape. She has in one of her letters a description of a bomb bedding and Amazon. And she describes how in

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the flare this venting van, she sees the angle or the inchworm rather measuring along the branch and the auction.

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Almost microscopic gaze. But you very often find that acute perception of physical things in mystical literature.

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It's very curious kind of mind, which seems tell us Gothic and microscopic at the same time. And you'll see that

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an Emily Dickinson's diction, where she combines with huge suggestive words, the most homely words.

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And she uses the homely words with suggestion and the suggested words as plain as possible. And that is the magic is an addiction.

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I think the unexpectedness of that river, when she speaks of aka day for example, she would probably mean just pasture land. But if she spoke with an arm chair,

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she might very well means Parnassus had his was not paying, takes out a big significance and vice versa. You'll see that in these poems,

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I think, for example, this one. Elysium is as far as to the very next nearest room. Isn't that room a friend,

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a weight, solicitation, or do what Father to the cell contains that it can sell and the accent of a

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coming forth opening of a dog. You see it once had an opening of a door, is to admit a cosmic thoughts fate itself. And it reminds me of another virus has eaten,

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is that old fashion house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we go away.

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How fair. I'm looking back. The day we started from the doth. Unconscious are

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returning this CalPERS, no wrong. Great homesickness and those last lines of defense. And again, here is the imagination at work.

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I never saw him along. I never saw the sea. Yet, not yet. Know how they had Alex. And water wave must be.

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I never spoke with God. Now visited in heaven. Yet seven AM I have the spot as if the chalk for given.

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And then this, which is very much the keynote of her own life. The soul selects her own society, then shuts the door on

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her divine majority day to no ma, unmoved. She notes the Chariots pausing at the gate. Unmoved. An emperor is kneeling upon her.

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Math. I've known her from an ample nation. Choose one, then close the valves of her attention. Like stones.

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I think that's analytic instance phasing is best ethics as extraordinary figure there. Then close the valves of her attention. Like stones.

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No cost is the same as there is no frigate, like a book to take us lands away. The RNA costs as like a page of practicing poetry.

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This Travis made the forest tape without oppressive TO how frugal is the chariot that there's a human cells.

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And this one on the cemetery, I think particularly fine and this beautiful example of what I was talking about, the large,

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would you sell casual am the small hoisted at this quiet dust was gentlemen. Ladies and labs and girls was laughter and ability,

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and sighing and trucks and curves. This passive, passive place, a summer's nimble mansion where Bloom. And these fulfill their Oriental circuit.

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Then see like these. I'm going to read that again. This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies and labs and girls was laughter and ability,

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and signs and trucks and curves. This passage place a sum as nimble mentioned, we have bloom and these fulfill the Oriental circuit, then ceased.

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Like these. Let's take that one way to orient or how many things it means. Oriental circuit the senses a

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exotic in the first place. Then the sense of all the colors of the summer which have gone now. And then the Orient are

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in the sensor, the East. The dawn of immortality. It's an extraordinary uses that word. And the oriental sick it

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because she uses those combinations sometimes. Sit with beautiful humans. For example, Fatah,

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about the whole the mouse, all powered by the cat. Reserve within the kingdom, a mansion for the RAF.

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Snug and ceramic covered two nibbles 0 the day, while unsuspecting cycles, wheel, pompous lay away.

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So wonderful combination of the small gray is another lightly step. The yellow star to its loved, the place. Loose.

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The moon has Silva hat. From how lustful face all of the evening South, they lit as an ancestral hall.

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Father, I have to heaven you up until then I want to say one to you, which is to my mind, the greatest thing she ever wrote.

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And I believe that I have spoken this before in this series, but no matter. And again, it's a rather difficult poem until you think it over.

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I may do a little interpretation. Say it twice, I'll say it over first. The feet of people walking home in Ghana, sandals go the crocus till she rises.

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The vassal of the snow, the Lipset, hallelujah, long years of practice. They'll die and buy these bards,

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men walk, singing by the Shah. Wings are the serifs, wagons, pedestrians. Once as we fails, other divers, father, loss and a legacy,

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death that are wrapped attention to immortality. My figures fail to tell me how far the village lies.

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Whose peasants or the angels whose cantons duct the skies, my classics, veil and faces, my faith that dock doors,

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which from its solemn abbeys, such resurrection pause to tremendous piling up of sound. Toward the end, they almost site

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organ music through the door ajar with a habits. I left out two lines of that second stanza. I was thinking, wait a minute. Hi guys.

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I'm going to say it again just a minute. But it is a very elliptical poem. You see the feet of people walking Homes sought

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immortality and gay as sandals gather crooked still she rises, the dancer, the snow. That is until eternity reveals to

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him or herself It's hidden like the crouches under the snow. The Lipset hallelujah long is a practice. That is the visit where

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as a practicing for the motto of utterance to have diabetes batsmen we're seeing Shaw is if costs the disciples and

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everybody as the disciples. Then I have this second stanza correctly now fails or the dive as father taught it from the sea.

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That is the revelation which is so difficult to get in the material world, you'd have to extend it really.

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Opinions the serifs swag and pedestrians onces wave at its wings out of the angel common faces. And they once walked the Earth is we do,

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they are that the immortal dead? Night is the mornings Canvas. In other words, if there were no jobs, there could be no life.

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Last Sunday legacy, what you steal. Immortality of Revelation is really your right in eternity, last in the legacy debts

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that are active tension than the rest I think is quite clear. One says, first two stanzas are explained, but I would call it hits.

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Do that beautifully, uses the word cantons, which lifts your eyes right after the apps. And now I'm going to say it was voluntary. Get it right.

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The feet of people walking home and sandals go the crocus till she rises. The vessel of the snow, the lips at hallelujah,

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long years of practice. Bar tilde, die and die. These barge man singing thy this shot pills or

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the data's fathers extorted from the sea. Opinions, the serifs, wagon, pedestrians, ones. As we night is the mornings Canvas,

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last name, legacy, debt. But our rapt attention to immortality by FEC is CEO to tell me how far the village lies.

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Whose peasants or the angels whose cantons dot the skies. My classics, they lead faces, my faith. That doc, docx, which solemn abbeys,

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such resurrection pause costs. In that poem she is saying clearly, put off reason your figures won't tell you real fast.

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So I'll tell you and take on imagination and revelation, which is just what the poet William Blake said. Of course.

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As far as I know, Emily Dickinson didn't know Blake's poetry, which was during her lifetime in a state of almost complete Eclipse,

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except among the pre-Raphaelite in England. But now I'm going to shift to another suggested poet. Yeats, I'm going to read for his poems,

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but first I'd like to read a little sketch of the eight soon this brand new book of Irish reminiscences, I always recommend the Irish memoirs.

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George was quite a valet and Yates his own trembling of the veil. The side lady graduates. Let us how Golgotha,

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he hates Lady Gregory as you'll see. And she and Yeats work together. And she completely controlled Yates for some years.

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I know that Gates, his father, Jack Yates, objected to it very much. And she had and

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conflict and a sound of course, you ran out of a Theta and go get a accused Yates of letting Lady Gregory take

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the credit for plays the Yeats wrote. He said, Well, we decide who found the right title to the play, could have the play.

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But this is quite interesting chapter, I think on Yeats is just a picture of him, someone who knew him intimately as the fascinating thing about

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all these Irish me, most people come and go so casually. And those take the introductions and I knew so-and-so yates

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would walks in and out of the picture, or George Mora, Augustus, John and so forth. And you walk down the street in Dublin,

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meet the great professor and the halfedge and so on. All these great people are embodied in and just coming and going and phages.

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And it's the same way with George laws. Laws except they're a little more, well, they're more sarcastic. Go got a really good time.

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He makes fun of a good many of his characters, especially Joyce. He says that he should, he knew Josh, he lived with him for two years in

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a desert is near Dublin. And he has some very amusing things to say to him. He insists that Joyce's works is simply

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a practical joke and Joyce himself was the madest nano sizes of an insane asylum. In fact, I think this is right here.

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And it's clash of using this expression, whether or not you agree with. He says that he's always trying to cheer Joyce up and he never succeeded.

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I should've known better than to try to rally him from being sullen and the sweet. Yeah, I should've known better. Studying abnormal psychology on the commonly,

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Norman was one of the best teachers I ever met. It is one thing to study lunacy in an asylum, another thing to recognize it and a friend.

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Had I succeeded and ministering to a mind disease, Joyce would not be the greatest schizophrenia whoever wrote this side,

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but mental hospital, he would never have been famous, famous. And Dublin would have been less. Siege.

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Go got a does not withhold his pen. So I don't have the right. Towards the end. Yates and his wife came to stay with us.

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And Augustus John went to work on a photo deviates when the name of this book for the way in case you wish to look it up

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is it isn't this time of year at all. Our sins in galaxies where the original is now I do not know, but the project represents

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the poet and his old age. He is seated with a rug ground his knees, and his broad had on his left, his white hair is round

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his head like a Nimbus. And behind him they embroidered cloth, purple and silver. It is the last part of the gates.

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It is reproduced in, as I was going down Sackville Street, which it goes at his area volume of memoirs. Poets require a little entertainment.

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They can entertain themselves. If you want to entertain new naphtha, I'll leave them alone. But something was in the wind.

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Yates was in consultation with my wife and I was not invited to take any thought on that planning.

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And last the news broke. Players from the Abbey Theatre would come down to produce Yates is the hawks. Well, an explanation of the Hawks well,

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and similar plays is necessary. It's got his idea from the symbolic no place of Japan. His imagination was excited.

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He saw a new mechanism with the stage on the same level as the room. He could have had a theater. Wherever.

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He could have a Theta where there was a large room. They would hold 40 or 50. For the audience must be read as a poetry.

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Did he mean to bring out last is poetic size shell for 40 years. My wife said that he had, in his own words,

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attain the distance from life, which can make credible strange events, elaborate words. All this Maki was by way of explanation.

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I wasn't mythology. What was about to happen? He wants to show us the masks and costumes designed

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by his friend Edmund do lack. He's tremendously excited. We have ample space in the large rooms. Indeed, there was space and not for

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the large room was larger than most drawing rooms. I had not been consulted very well. This meant our sped such out

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noxious details as the reservation is the ground saw the East Wing for the ABI players may not be very well be a poet.

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50 percent of them are distraught, but it must be very intense to be a dramatist. Go with himself. The zoo

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now is very well-known thoughts, though not as well-known facts. First, photos for his memoirs, just present. What I'm coming to is this.

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There's Yates and the lovely spot on. And Yeats, instead of enjoying the place, is constrained to bring in, help smooth out too it, this Avy players,

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Lady Wellesley and has remote somewhere that Yates never noticed natural scenery that maybe, but that he did at one time observed

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narrowly as obvious from his poems, which never one spring in exotic or impossible scenes that always things most opposite.

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The u that has been green from Time Out of mind. The long great pack, the roots and Castle, dark and light.

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Well, he loves excitement. And there's this to be said in his favor. There's no way to give anyone an idea that you have

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written that compares to having produced accident scene? I never seen the hawks. Well, although it may have been on

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sometime during my frequent visits to the array, if there was any room for it between the plays,

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the Yates attributed to Lady Gregory's and which were played ad nauseum. If I did see it,

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one thing is certain. I never saw it with you lack masks, head dresses, and costumes. Now did here is music.

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It may be that all this shadow with an objection to having a piece of the place disturbed by players is an affectation of minds.

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I shall find myself pretending it. I'm so full of resources that I do not require any outside help to

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enjoy your holiday and a lovely place. Now I find myself looking forward to the time. So my attitude was all nonsense.

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It has to be on after dinner. That is about nine o'clock tonight. Yes, he's quite right. Time hangs heavy after dinner,

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especially on those who do not indulge in the illiteracy of cards. Always stale periods. Much more than 40 people

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that come to see the play. Who told him, I'd imagine foolish thing when you come to think of

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is that a play in place can thrive privately. So that is what all of this spring was about to get an audience. I thought that they must be read

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his poetry as well, who would have thought? And Mrs. Blank and the ash blonde, don't have a read poetry. Oliver, it was divisive.

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Augustus John, we have been looking for you everywhere. Come in phase about to begin. Yates was already speaking.

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When I entered. I tried to sit in the back row for the speaker, paused until I went forward.

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His paws made my interruption more noticeable. He resumed at long last one. Our c is that well as Augustus John,

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As I was saying, I found a form of drama. That is it once aristocratic and distinguished. He is resuming the poetic

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grammar that he reluctantly set aside when he founded the theta in order to support itself, had to stoop to the masses.

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I thought that I was wrong. I have created an unpopular theta, that is the Theta that does not defend existence on crowds and box office.

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I found a form. It doesn't work by suggestion. Complexity, rhythm, color gestures, symbol, not by direct statements.

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I'm not all that, basically the no plays that were intended for novels. But I've made them suitable to our conventions of aristocracy.

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How the audience must be flat as I, as you will see shortly, have discovered the Thetas anti self should explain. Perhaps not.

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Everybody will think that they require not intellect to appreciate his play. But what is rarer than intellect understanding of

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symbolism and who can limit its wide suggestions. Every man for himself, evident that the audience

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thinks that it is up to them to supply mystical emotions. They're all planets. That's what the speaker wants

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and upside that Adam, great suggestions, not significant for that would be too limited.

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So well then is the well of immortality or wisdom, if you will. The hero approaches and finds an old man seated there waiting for it's bubbling.

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He has been there for 50 years. When the players first written Yates, the city as well as guarded by a woman who

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was possessed by a hawk. Call this woman intellect. She dances a magic dance which draws the hero often to sue and shed sleep.

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A funny old man. The song I've written for the play suggest the hero. I know well that you would not have made

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the explicit that it rests, that. And then here's the gates for it, which seems to me that it's just a stanza. I call to the eye of the mind, a well long,

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choked up and dry and vows long stripped by the wind. And I call to the mines. Pallor of an ivory face.

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It's loved a dissolute as a man climbing up to a place, the salt C When has left there. Whatever sort of face the arrowhead,

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it is not an ivory phase. Yeats is facing the color vibrates and so is the face of Dante who is mapped by Guido. Don't think that my thoughts

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distract me from speech. I remember it well. Masks, costumes and music by my friend Edmund do laugh.

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Let us begin. Applause, loud applause. All the greatest in volume because of the room.

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Thanks be to Heaven gates at last is enjoying itself. Even in the presence of a few old people whom poetry,

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no matter how you use your imagination, can have had no appeal. It does nothing to diminishes satisfaction that I knew,

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but they assured way in which he spoke. Often when he spoke, he uses audiences for Guinea pigs. If we're using the audience

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to sound out the effectiveness words. Now you had no need of such a subterfuge. He was master of himself. No, I've never seen the hearts well,

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the old lady of the Abbey Theatre repel me. I continually and setting a few play she was supposed to written and attaching them

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to everybody else's work. Once I tackle Yates about the so-called phase of Lady Gregory, you cannot tell me tell me

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she wrote the rising of the moon. He, although he tried to be evasive, acknowledge this, we decided that whoever found

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a suitable title might have the words to. As I suspected, Yates, who had a fine sense of humor, did not want the county to

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interfere with his fame as an outstanding poet who must conformity to the English idea, be totally lacking in humans.

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So that Lady Gregory get away with the comics. That change actually took place. I do not remember the year,

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but I remember the conversation and our triumphs and I felt when what I had long suspected from observation turned out to be correct.

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I know that Yates is very well satisfied, but I also knew that praise him with detract from the mystical infection he had produced.

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So I left him alone in his glory. I think that that's a picture of one evening as well with presenting girl got he has a wonderful memory.

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He tell me, as a matter of fact, the Yates always pretended to have no memory it on the very day until he go get a reminder.

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Yeats, that Homa called memory, the mother of the muse is. Then Yates began to remember everything. Well, Gates is one of the

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scientists did not in there. Although there was some self-deception 2AM and some comes out to his symbolism is

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very elaborate pattern as you know. And those who tried to tip it is symbolic pros have had rather rough going. I compare them loosely

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to the long prophetic books. If William Blake, who I've always thought deliberately meant to mystify readers as

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though the truths that he had found almost too great to be communicated as a whole. Notes and lakes longer

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prophetic books and efficiently changes the cymbals. Here's the thing for simpler one thing and then suddenly change it into something else.

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So it'll be misled unless you're very keen sense. Well, Yeats and his Purely lyric style is good.

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This poem has been very much criticized at this they lately, but it still makes us sound. You'll notice here the numbers,

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numbers are always important to a mystic. You'll notice them and almost all the poems I'm going to raise his eye will

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arise and go now and go to Innisfree and a small cabin build there of clay and waffles May 19 rows will I have there?

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And then have fallen honeybee and live alone in the lounge. And I shall have some T stands for peace. Dropping slow, dropping from the veils

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of the morning to where the cricket sayings, they're midnight, It's all a glimmer and knew a purple glow. And evening follows the Linux swings.

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I will arise and go now for always night and day. I hear lake water laughing with low sounds by the Sean.

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I stand on the roadway around the pavements grey. I hear it in the de, heart's core. Oh, and, and many other

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beautiful lyric poems, especially those pure lyrics of James Stephens, make one understand that is a good deal

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of artistic fact behind the linguistic fact that the language of island is more like the language of Elizabeth's time

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than modern English or American lyric voice. Until recently, I don't know what's happened to it lately.

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In Ireland with Sydney, I can do the Elizabethan lyric. This poem of Yeats, this is, starts off as a translation from SAS sonnets.

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But then it takes leave of France, I Evans, and it was just inspired by a line or two first-line as almost as they did.

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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

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the soft look Your eyes had once and of their shadows deep. How many loved your moments of glad grace and loved

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your beauty with love, false or true. But one man loved the pilgrim soul and knew and loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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And bending down beside the glowing bars. A little sadly, how loud, flat and paste upon the mountains overhead and hid his face

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amid a crowd of stars. Necessary for one thing, the pictorial quality of that is amazing. And we remember that both Yates,

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his father and his brother, well-known artists. And then the beautiful while swans, it's cool.

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Cool. As Lady Gregory's home, it was been during the Irish called the troubles. When apparently they did their best to bin up

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their own most historic and beautiful houses. They tend against themselves. In fact, cavities houses than death. He was a senator.

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And the Republicans who were the more radical group. Then the houses, if the government, people, the wilds funds it cool.

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The trees are in their autumn beauty. The wooden part does that drive under the October twilight? Mirrors is still sky.

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Upon the brimming water among the stones are 950 swans. The 19th autumn has kind of handmade. Since I made my account.

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I saw the fire well finished. All suddenly mount and scatter, wheeling in great broken rings upon their clamorous ways.

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I have looked upon those brilliant creatures and now my heart is so on. All changed since I hearing in Twilight the first

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time on these jar that they'll be their wings above my head. Trod with a light had tread on where it's still love, I love.

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Are they paddle in the cold, companionable streams or crime? The, their hearts have not grown our passion, our conquest, wander where they

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will attend upon them still. But now they drift, done the still waters. Steer is beautiful.

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Among what rushes will they bills by what lake's edge or pool delight, men's eyes. When I awake someday to find they have flown away.

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Cos, I suspect what he means is that he will awake someday and to a land where they are not. And that's very interesting.

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His consideration of age that reminds me of the end of go got his book. A paragraph or two scenes

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me unusually beautiful, says this longing for you. Dislike of old age is preeminently an Irish traits.

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Blind Raptor is a poet who was born in male, has spent his days in Galway town. His face to the wall playing his music to empty pockets,

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says in the last line of his famous poem, the County Mayo, old age would never find me and I'd be young again. And in the 20th century,

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yeats is seven words, tells how the squirrels are just as if there had been hidden in green bows

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where old age cannot find them. The ancient Irish had no Valhalla in the heavens. They had their land of

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youth in their own country, under the A's and under the ways no one made yet. When it came to making such things,

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that was a blacksmith business. Under the Earth and under the water there was an idyllic life where even Eternity cannot boil.

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This means very much today because even beauty, if dwelt on too long begins to Paul. But in Mac mail, a delightful plane.

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It is otherwise mag male that was delighted my youth. And then Tn or not, I shall see you again.

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The young again and 10 are not. In the west of Ireland. There's magic everywhere. It is behind religion.

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For what is religion? Supernatural regulated? Reason. Canada, effective for reasons, has given us a safe conduct

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through our daily life. That magic deals with the phenol that is someday artifice to know them that they have.

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It will be open to national enter into no strange round to the realm of youth renewed, buys, advise. So lovely ending having.

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Now I'm going to be sailing to present him, which is his most famous poem I suppose on the subject of growing old and entering eternity.

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This is very different from the youthful exuberance which go get a ends his book and which Yeats himself had in his early days.

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This is the re-creation of a static pattern. In old age eight says he is Sailing to Byzantium. And of course, the whole principle of

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Byzantium is the adjustment as every line and value according to an eternal set. If it results in

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distortion of the things we represented, That's all right. It must have that pattern consonant with the larger pattern.

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Each piece belongs. Hence, it is not surprising. Mosaic was one of the great Suzanne time. I speak with a goodie or submitted

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a much deference to members of the present. And we're sufficiently incidents. I know they speak up psycho very much wrong. What Yates is using anyway,

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that general idea expressed exam time. He's using that as a symbol of the set eternal patterns, which should be the subject of contemplation

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of the philosophic man growing up, becoming immobile away from the thinly veiling the motion of all things. This is no country for all.

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This is called Sailing to Byzantium estimate average. I am sure that is No Country for Old Men. The young in one another's arms,

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beds in the trays. Those dying generations at their songs. The Salmon Falls, the macro crowded seas, Fish, sexual fowl, commend all sum along.

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Whatever is but gotten bon and dies, caught in that central music. All neglect. Monuments of an aging intellect.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing. A tattered coat upon a stick. Unless so, crap its hands and saying and loud as saying,

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for every Tata and its multiple dress, nor is there singing school, but studying monuments of its own magnificence.

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And therefore, I have sailed the seas and come to the holy city of Byzantium. Sages standing in God's holy fire, As in the gold mosaic of

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a wall, comes from the hole. A thin and a Jaya and D, The Singing masters of myself. Consume my hot away,

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sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal. It knows not what it is. And gather me Into the odds.

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Is the tenant a once out of nature, I shall never take my bodily form from any natural thing. But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make.

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I've hammered gold and gold and not willing to keep a drowsy emperor awake. All set upon a golden bow to sing. To lords and ladies of Byzantium.

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What is path or passing ought to count. That last line. Last kept it. The same two lords and ladies of Byzantium.

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What is path of passing or to come? That of course, is a reference to the 10 on now of Hindu philosophy, which has been entering

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knowledge on more and more. And we find it, well, we find it fully expressed. In, for example, Alice

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is made in the cathedral. We'll forever at rest and yet an Arabian, most of the great paradox of everything that ever existed are,

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is to exist the simultaneous. That is an idea so complicated. There's fancy writing his station wagon to sail beyond even a careful reader.

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That it's become almost too familiar in some modern literature, but feels sometimes it's being used as the wood for God.

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God is in poetry. Martha decoration than our conviction. Yates use it if it's complete conviction that cost.

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You will. Remember the sonnets of Shakespeare, one of the great penitential son. Our cells center of my

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sinful and that begins, I can't go on. I'm sorry to say that he uses that same metaphor there that Yates uses. Yates says, so CAP

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its hands and singing loud as saying, for every tattered and small hole dress, you remember Shakespeare uses the figure, the outward gay no more.

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The more the out-of-body is, Ted has so much more on Thursday, so gather strength. It's just the same idea and

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a very interesting combination because Shakespeare's angle for the idea, it's a very different cost, is writing from the CA, convinced mysticism.

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I haven't time, I regret to say to read you from an amylase coming collection. I have I have only a few minutes. I'll read the two short ones of my own.

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I want to give Millay's new book a longer periods and we have left. Because there are several things I want to show how much in her last decade she

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mature and shook off the rather glib cynicism she had when she was young and the unfortunate political slabs.

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She put into her poetry and middle period and became simply a sincere forth, as I'm going to say in my review of the city for 10 countries,

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a philosopher of the pasture lands and the mystic of the sea. And there are many poems and marriage in their general standard

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I think surpass anything she's written before. Well, having only three minutes left, I'll close with my usual selection

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from these lyrics in mind. I'll read two little ones. One is called Luna moth. You know, there's no beautiful green law.

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The other is called the garden and comfort. So the garden I had that was in the middle of a word. And the picture that is by

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moonlight to a companion pieces almost. This is the luna moth. From the forest at night, come into the light green wing,

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it flight to ten-year, come to a model's home from the low moon land with her wings and Hawaiian.

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And how bright lack eyes and her tiny feet and have wings pale green like wind through we. Now I'm wise.

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Now I've seen Men Tell No lies of a fairy queen. She was here on the wall, and now she has gone quiet,

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small to the night, alone with a wave with her once she advantage beyond the sky to the cool mood of July.

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As a summary, when he's learned lawsuit comes the same face in comfort. And this is the garden and comfort. The story music through

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remote and silent evening, slowly grew. First flight echoes note by note, shaking the air, they tremble through. Then with the shop and fairness von,

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of growing silence to their sounds and growing deafness to their life. They listed patterns from the ground,

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from silence, shaped facil, the HON to flow, the revenue of nine and ring the chiming globes if due.

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And all about me, where I stood on It's a blossoms came to view deep and the chances of the wood pale crystals

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Phyton to buy to a starry night. I said aloud, a starry night. Do replied. Then beneath my feet,

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the song of the streamed and asylum time, I wrote the star in prouder of tying night. And that the throng begin this cell, the song,

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and that's all we have time for.