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Per Amica Silentia Lunae (Collected Works of William Butler Yeats) Per Amica Silentia Lunae by W.B. Yeats
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“Only in rapid and subtle thought, or in faint accents heard in the quiet of the mind, can the thought of the spirit come to us but little changed; for a mind, that grasps objects simultaneously according to the degree of its liberation, does not think the same thought with the mind that sees objects one after another.”
W.B. Yeats, Per Amica Silentia Lunae
“He suffers with man as some firm-souled man suffers with the woman he but loves the better because she is extravagant and fickle. His descending power is neither the winding nor the straight line but zigzag, illuminating the passive and active properties, the tree’s two sorts of fruit: it is the sudden lightning, for all his acts of power are instantaneous.”
W.B. Yeats, Per Amica Silentia Lunae
“If they had not been rapacious, lustful, narrow and persecuting beyond the people of their time, the incarnation had been impossible; but it was an intellectual impulse from the Condition of Fire that shaped their antithetical self into that of the classic world.”
W.B. Yeats, Per Amica Silentia Lunae