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Ideas of Good and Evil

W. B. Yeats

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. . ., in the great memory, and one never knows what forgotten events may have plunged it, like the toadstool and the ragweed, into the great passions. Knowledgeable men and women in Ireland sometimes distinguish between the simples that work cures by some medical property in the herb, and those that do their work by magic. Such magical simples as the husk of the flax, water out of the fork of[Pg 66] an elm-tree, do their work, as I think, by awaking in the depths of the mind where it mingles with the great mind, and is enlarged by the great memory, some curative energy, some hypnotic command. They are not what we call faith cures, for they have been much used and successfully, the traditions of all lands affirm, over children and over animals, and to me they seem the only medicine that could have been committed safely to ancient hands. To pluck the wrong leaf would have been to go uncured, but, if one had eaten it, one might have been poisoned.

 

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- Tiziano - Jan 05, 2024

Un bel libro di scritti di Yeats, dove sembra di essere proprio lì, nei circoli letterari di Dublino, fra gli artisti, poeti, scrittori e drammaturghi d’Irlanda. Leggere le impressioni letterarie di Yeats è meraviglioso: l’uso della lingua, delle metafore, il modo di analizzare la vita dell’uomo e d

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- Dr Matt - Jul 27, 2014

Wasn't what I expected but it did turn out to a great insight into Yeats' poetic philosophy and something of his character. Interesting to me since he is one of my favorite poets

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- Janice (JG) - Jan 30, 2023

I am embarrassed to admit I haven't paid any attention to Yeats throughout my reading life, in fact, I think I probably avoided him, and now I can't remember why.

This is a wonderful little book. Yeats is very chatty as he discusses his thoughts about poetry, painting and art, William Blake, Shakespe

5.00
- Marie - Nov 20, 2022

Indescribably exquisite

I was moved to tears a number of times and paused many times to savor and contemplate a sentence or paragraph. I am ready to reread it having just finished it. To enter into Yeats' heart and mind is to experience the majesty and profundity of the Inner Realm.

This will be a com

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- Judy - Dec 27, 2012

This book was not what I expected from the title, but neither was it less than I expected. Rather than a discussion on good and evil as conditions of the human soul, this was a collection of essays about art written during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (See titles below)

Some discussions we

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- Edward - Mar 30, 2017

Really poor title. It sounds like a book of philosophy but that isn't close. Yeats is talking about what is good and bad in art, music, poetry, etc.

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