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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• Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

  

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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