“In day from some titanic past it seems
As if a thread divine of memory runs;
Born ere the Mighty One began his dreams,
Or yet were stars and suns.”
"Day"
By Still Waters (1906)
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Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867–1935Related quotes
Mother Night, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
XVI, 19
The Kitáb-I-Asmá
Context: O ye that are invested with the Bayán! Denounce ye not one another, ere the Day-Star of ancient eternity shineth forth above the horizon of His sublimity. We have created you from one tree and have caused you to be as the leaves and fruit of the same tree, that haply ye may become a source of comfort to one another. Regard ye not others save as ye regard your own selves, that no feeling of aversion may prevail amongst you so as to shut you out from Him Whom God shall make manifest on the Day of Resurrection. It behooveth you all to be one indivisible people; thus should ye return unto Him Whom God shall make manifest.
“Courses even with the sun
Doth her mighty brother run.”
The Gipsies Metamorphosed, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Makrina, in Emperor and Galilean (1873), Final lines.
“You're the bad one from the day you were born.”
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), When You Were Young
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
“Ere systemed suns were globed and lit
The slaughters of the race were writ.”
Pt. II, sc. v, Semichorus I
The Dynasts (1904–1908)
