Best Five Poems About Mothers Nov 20, 2009
"The Song of the Old Mother" by William Butler Yeats. Yeats' poem or "song" epitomizes what many think of their mothers, be they modern or old-fashioned. (Suite101.com)
Conversation Piece Nov 4, 2009
William Butler YeatsPoetry can resemble incantation, but sometimes it also resembles conversation ... The casual surface of speech and the inward energy of art have a clear relation in "Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ... William Butler Yeats. (Slate)
Partying with the state’s other party Oct 30, 2009
Spend on, and tax through unrepining hour, to paraphrase a lovely line from William Butler Yeats. ( Hate on and love through unrepining hours. (Boston Globe)
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" Oddly, Indiana's official basketball records list the Hoosiers losing their first-ever game by a count of 20-17.Thus, Indiana University basketball was born.The team's first home game wouldn't come until 13 days later when the Hoosiers hosted the Bulldogs at the Men's Gymnasium Feb. 21. Despite nearly two weeks of preparation, IU again fell to Butler, this time by a score of 24-20. As a side note, Indiana's current official records claim the home game vs. Butler was played Feb. 28. This is... (Indiana Sports -- Rivals.com)
William Safire: Pundit, Provocateur, Penman Sep 30, 2009
And this meant, I suspect, that many of those with political views a million miles from those of Safire to adopt W.H. Auden on William Butler Yeats pardoned him for writing well. They missed him when he'd gone. (Time.com)
LETTER: A defense of Congressman Tierney Sep 16, 2009
Sadly, to paraphrase the words of poet William Butler Yeats: We seem to be living in a time when the very best lack conviction- and the worst are filled with excess and passion. Phil Sweeney. (Swampscott Reporter, MA)
Ted Kennedy: Family senator, patriarch, dead at 77 Sep 1, 2009
This eulogy invoked the words of William Butler Yeats, the poet: We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair. But like his father, he had every gift but the gift of years. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Kennedy's Career Forged in Public's Glare Aug 26, 2009
This eulogy invoked the words of William Butler Yeats, the poet: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair. But like his father, he had every gift but the gift of years.". "Thank you my friend for your many courtesies. If the world only knew," reads a letter hanging on one wall of the office. (CBS News)
Eugene Robinson: Democrats seem to be squandering hard-won mandate Aug 21, 2009
To quote the poet William Butler Yeats: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." There's not enough passion on the Democratic side, not enough heat. There's some radiating from the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, too little emanating from the Democratic majority in the Senate, and not nearly enough coming from President Obama. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Back to School Quotes, Sayings, and... Aug 14, 2009
"Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats. "All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind." - Martin H. Fischer. (Suite101.com)
Peace dances in the Philippines Aug 1, 2009
Peace - of a different sort - comes dropping slow, as per the William Butler Yeats poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Were the poet alive today and composing from a southern Philippine island, Yeats' muse might not be as placid - or introverted - as in the pacific west of Ireland surrounds of his original lyric. (Asia Times Online)
Paul Buckley, MBTA electrician who served on homeless council Jul 30, 2009
Mr. Buckley was very fond of Irish poetry, in particular William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney. Mr. Buckley served two years in the Army, stationed in Hawaii during the Korean conflict. (Boston Globe)
To Kinfinity and beyond Jul 25, 2009
No Country for Old Men is more than the title of an Oscar-winning film and the opening line of a poem by William Butler Yeats. It's the apt summary of a seven-day trek by near 70-year-olds this month through Western Australia's Kimberley. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Edward Steichen exhibits showcase breadth of photographer’s career Jul 19, 2009
Other portraits aren t as well known, but the sitters are: Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Gish, William Butler Yeats. One can imagine Steichen relishing so eclectic a roster. (Boston Globe)
Tools of fear can at times be subtle Jul 10, 2009
Resist it in all its forms, speak out against it, for The worst among us, wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats, are full of passionate intensity. Teach our children to open their hearts and minds to others. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Marianne Moore's "Poetry" Jul 1, 2009
By comparison, the phrase "a literalist of the imagination," Moore's paraphrase of William Butler Yeats' remark about William Blake, is almostthough not really. simple. (Slate)
Requiem for a revolution Jun 30, 2009
But as Irish poet William Butler Yeats said, "Let the Earth bear witness"; those that lived - and will continue to live - the dream of a better Iran should not and will not be forgotten. Pepe Escobar is the author of (Nimble Books, 2007) and. (Asia Times Online)
Sitting In: Dance and romance: a womans tale Jun 30, 2009
William Butler Yeats. June may be the traditional month for weddings, but in my family, June is the month for dance recitals. (Danvers Herald, MA)
Host to Coast May 23, 2009
Vanity Fair, June 2009An from an upcoming biography of Ted Kennedy focuses on the Massachusetts senator's battle with brain cancer and his family's responses to the possibility of losing the only Kennedy brother who "had lived long enough, in the words of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to 'comb grey hair.' " In Boston last spring, after the senator suffered two seizures, "[t]he hospital room throbbed with undisguised rivalry between Vicki and Joe Kennedy II, the third serious contender for... (Slate)
Biden urges WFU grads to 'bend history' May 19, 2009
Biden wove into his speech references from the poetry of William Butler Yeats and Wake Forest s own Maya Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American History. After his speech, the university awarded Biden an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. (Triad Business Journal, NC)
Whatever happened to compromise in the Idaho House? Apr 28, 2009
"Things fall apart. The center cannot hold." - William Butler Yeats. Sen. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Saying goodbye to a colleague Apr 14, 2009
Dr. Hassan wrote his dissertation on the poetry of William Butler Yeats. Dr. Hassan s other publications are as follows: Rubaiyats, Random Thoughts, Between Barbed Wires, Inner Edge, and Ashes and Sparks. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Marsalis combines passions for jazz, poetry on CD Mar 25, 2009
"And I keep a copy of William Butler Yeats with me, and for years I've been on the road reading him.". Marsalis has combined jazz and the spoken word before, most notably on his 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz oratorio on slavery and freedom, "Blood on the Fields.". (Erie Times-News, PA)
A fresh look at Wellesley's Davis Museum Mar 21, 2009
In Among School Children, Irish poet William Butler Yeats asked, Who can tell the dancer from the dance. In Perceiving Space as Art, Hailey helps viewers discover through their senses they re also part of each piece of art. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Book Reviews: The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1 and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English Mar 19, 2009
He was often alone and lonely, but he had many friends, including James Joyce; the heiresses Nancy Cunard and Peggy Guggenheim; and the painter Jack Butler Yeats, the brother of William Butler Yeats. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Irish village revels in its link to 'O'Bama' Mar 19, 2009
Its lyrics will win no awards in the land of James Joyce and William Butler Yeats ("He's as Irish as bacon and cabbage and stew/He's Hawaiian, he's Kenyan, American too"), and "Barack" is pronounced like a building that houses soldiers. But the Corrigans' homemade video on YouTube went from 25 hits in the beginning - which the brothers acknowledge were mostly their own - to millions from around the world. (Boston Globe)
5 Things You Didnt Know: Leprech... Mar 18, 2009
The great Irish poet and writer William Butler Yeats referred to them as "sluttish, slouching, jeering, mischievous phantoms" and "great practical jokers." They're difficult to catch, but the difficulty isn't with the leprechaun himself, but with the catcher: If you can lock a focused, unbreakable gaze on him, he can't escape, and presumably he'll lead you to his pot of gold. The problem thus far has been that no one has an attention span sufficiently long enough to stay fixed on him. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
New knight gets to see light of day Mar 11, 2009
"Even our writers look skyward. After all, Oscar Wilde thought we were all in the gutter, but the best of us are 'looking at the stars'. And William Butler Yeats called the passion for flying a 'lonely impulse of delight'.". 1. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
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Published: Friday, March 6, 2009 3:12 PM EST Israel s chaotic history reminds historian Dr. Michael Oren of a line from Irish poet William Butler Yeats: In dreams begin responsibilities. Jews achieved their dream of statehood over 60 years ago. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Experience Dublin like a local Mar 6, 2009
Ditto the National Gallery which features the impressionistic works of Jack Yeats, less-famous brother of the Nobel laureate poet William Butler Yeats. The excellent James Joyce Centre charges $6 (5 euros). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Predicting fate of Ireland turns into a shouting match Feb 28, 2009
In many ways, this "blood-dimmed tide" that Kelly fears resembles more an apocalyptic fancy of William Butler Yeats than rigorous economic thinking. Kelly's view, in fact, is in the distinct minority here - but so was Roubini's in the United States. (International Herald Tribune)
Their sorrows, his cause Feb 22, 2009
Kennedy's voice cracked when he ended his tribute to John by paraphrasing a poem by William Butler Yeats: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father, he had every gift but length of years.". After Kennedy concluded his eulogy, Caroline rose from her pew and clasped him in a hug. (Boston Globe)
