“Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout?”
Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'âme des dévots ?
Le Lutrin (1683) I, 12
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“The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
In The Seven Woods http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1518/ <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904) <br class="br">Context: I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods<br>Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees<br>Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away<br>The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness<br>That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile<br>Tara uprooted, and new commonness<br>Upon the throne and crying about the streets<br>And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,<br>Because it is alone of all things happy.<br>I am contented, for I know that Quiet<br>Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart<br>Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,<br>Who but awaits His house to shoot, still hands<br>A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.
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Source: The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), III
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
“Place honey on the altars and die,
You lovers that are bitter at heart.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
