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To a poet nothing can be useless
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier
Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time
Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?
And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Resolution and Independence
The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

A Poet's Epitaph
The light that never was, on sea or land;
The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!—
The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

Personal Talk
Irish poets, learn your trade,
Sing whatever is well made.

Last Poems, 1936-1939, under ben bulben
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