William Butler Yeats Quotes

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

William Butler Yeats

• Discipline
• Christ
• Tolerance
• Vain

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• When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.

  

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• Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Discipline
  • Christ
  • Tolerance