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Mistodon: this typographical setting of an excerpt from #WilliamButlerYeats' 1919 poem #TheSecondComing was made in #teletext by TeletextR and included in last month's new, literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.
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Turns out the "rough beast" that was slouching towards Bethlehem was #Zionism
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Michael_Robartes_and_the_Dancer/The_Second_Coming
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?#WilliamButlerYeats #Yeats #poetry #AntiChrist #Christianity #history #Israel #Palestine
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"William Butler Yeats," John Singer Sargent, 1907.
Y'all know Sargent, the great society portraitist, by now.
In the early 1900s, Sargent was at the height of his fame, but also starting to slow down a bit. He'd gone hither and yon doing portraits of anybody who was anybody, and had weathered the "Madame X" scandal, and had continued to work at a prolific pace. But soon after this portrait (a commission, to be the frontispiece to a collection of Yeats' poetry), he officially closed his London studio and slowed down significantly....but still painted, almost up until his passing in 1925.
Yeats (1865-1913) was an Irish poet, playwright, and critic who was one of the great figures of 20th century literature. He co-founded Dublin's Abbey Theatre, was the driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, was an Irish Nationalist, and received the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Although he was in his 40s when this was drawn, he looks quite young. Yeats was known to be fussy about his appearance, and to cultivate a Boho image; perhaps Sargent was being flattering. But spare charcoal-on-paper style works wonderfully.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From a private collection.
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William Butler Yeats
„Was ist Anmut anderes als Flucht vor dem Mechanismus? Insofern die Welt vom Kampf der Interessen beherrscht wird, ist sie ein Mechanismus. Die Zeitung ist das Rattern der Maschine. Sobald es darum geht, recht zu haben, werden Argumente zum Widerstreit von Interessen. Man sollte, vor allem in Büchern, die nach Unsterblichkeit dürsten, überhaupt keine Argumente vertreten, wenn man nicht bereit ist, den offenbaren Sieg einem anderen zu überlassen. Im täglichen Leben wird man in dem Augenblick ungezogen, wo man dem Clown seinen ständigen Triumph missgönnt.“
#Anmut #Bücher #Leben #Maschine #Mechanismus #WilliamButlerYeats #ZeitungInternet_ #Zitat
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William Butler Yeats
Alle leeren Seelen neigen zu extremen Ansichten,
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The VOCES8 Choir & Orchestra perform Rebecca Dale’s ‚The Cloths of Heaven‘ in a new orchestration by Iain Farrington, conducted by Barnaby Smith.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPhb0OYVeGw
Text from ‚Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven‘ by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Hätte ich die gestickten Tücher des Himmels, die mit goldenem und silbernem Licht durchwirkt sind, die blauen und dunklen Tücher der Nacht und des Lichts und des Halblichts, ich würde die Tücher unter deinen Füßen ausbreiten: Aber ich, der ich arm bin, habe nur meine Träume; ich habe meine Träume unter deinen Füßen ausgebreitet; tritt sanft, denn du trittst auf meine Träume.
#BarnabySmith #ChoirOrchestra #Gedicht #Hören #IanFarrington #Literatur #Live #MUSIK #RebeccaDale #TheClothsOfHeaven #TheVoces8 #Träume #WilliamButlerYeats
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Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
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Jack Butler Yeats, brother of WB Yeats and a painter who developed an intensely expressionist style, died on 28th March 1957. He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishArt #Painting #JackButlerYeats #WilliamButlerYeats #WBYeats #SamuelBeckett #OnThisDay
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Some of the lyrics in the main theme song include text from the Celtic folklore poem “The Stolen Child” by Northern Irish poet William Butler Yeats
#MusComEnt #HappyStPatricksDay #SongOfTheSea #WilliamButlerYeats #poetry #Yeats -
@c0t0d0s0 Eine wunderschön schaurige Lesung des Gedichts The Second Coming von WB Yeats findet sich hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2oIsA4c7k
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@FotoVorschlag
'Literarischer Handlungsort'[...] The little narrow trodden way that runs
From the white road to the Abbey of Corcomroe
Is covered up; and all about the hills
Are like a circle of agate or of jade.
Somewhere among great rocks on the scarce grass
Birds cry, they cry their loneliness.
Even the sunlight can be lonely here,
Even hot noon is lonely. [...]From: The Dreaming of the Bones
by W. B. Yeats 1919#FotoVorschlag #photoprompt #burren #ireland #WilliamButlerYeats
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"I went into the hazel #wood because a fire was in my head," said the Irish poet, adjusting his round-rimmed glasses. "But I ended up wandering through hollow lands and hilly lands."
"Woods, eh? I went walking in a yellow one, myself," said the American poet. "My problem was which path to follow. I chose the less travelled one."
"Did you happen to pluck the silver apples of the moon or the golden apples of the sun?"
"'Fraid not."
#wss366 #microfiction #poets #WilliamButlerYeats #RobertFrost
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yeatsforkrauts_vol5: Das Werk über die Lebenszeit , grafisch --> https://www.clauswilcke.com/blog/yeatsforkrauts_5_-das-werk-ueber-die-lebenszeit-grafisch
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
-- William Butler Yeats -
Jack Butler Yeats, brother of WB Yeats and a painter who developed an intensely expressionist style, died on 28th March 1957. He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishArt #Painting #JackButlerYeats #WilliamButlerYeats #WBYeats #SamuelBeckett #OnThisDay
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"A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown."-'The Mermaid' by William Butler Yeats
#BookWormSat#WBYeats #WilliamButlerYeats #TheMermaid #Mermaid #Poetry #IrishLiterature
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Joni Mitchell - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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What they undertook to do
They brought to pass;
All things hang like a drop of dew
Upon a blade of grass.— William Butler Yeats • “Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors”
#WilliamButlerYeats #WBYeats #Yeats
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“For the psychologist, Wilfred Bion, negative capability was about not giving in to the temptation to continually engage with the safety of the familiar.”
https://rachelbotsman.substack.com/p/how-to-think-like-shakespeare
#psychology #NegativeCapability #safety #familiarity #unknown #williambutleryeats #Shakespeare
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Jack Butler Yeats, brother of WB Yeats and a painter who developed an intensely expressionist style, died on 28th March 1957. He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishArt #Painting #JackButlerYeats #WilliamButlerYeats #WBYeats #SamuelBeckett #OnThisDay
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Thoor Ballylee. #YeatsTower #Gort #Galway #Ireland. Home to #WilliamButlerYeats.
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ESIMERKKI NOBEL-PALKITULLE
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)Kiinasta Peruun valtaistuimilla
ovat istuneet kuninkaat monenlaiset
jotka miehet ja naiset monenlaiset
hyviksi ja suuriksi....https://satruno.blogspot.com/2023/01/esimerkki-nobel-palkitulle.html
#WBYeats #WilliamButlerYeats #Yeats #Runo #Runoja #Runot #Runous
