What are ya'll guys' favorite Yeats poems/quotations?

>>8641594
I can't pretend to be much of a judge of poetry, I'm an English teacher not a homosexual.

Anon, why do you keep making this thread? Are you using this information to hack /lit/ or something?

Fine, my three favorite Yeats poems, sorted by his early, middle, and late periods are:
Early: The Dim Mist About Medb's Tresses
Middle: A Patched-Up Pair of Trousers Sold at a Second-Hand Store for 3/11
Late: Kissing the Shades at 72

I'm actually a big-time Yeats fanboy as well, but I already gave my favorites the last time you posted this.

>>8641609
This is my first time posting here in a long time.

Sailing To Byzantium is one of my favourite poems and I know it by heart.

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on 4chan."

Call me unoriginal but the Second Coming is the best Yeats

Y'ALL
Y'ALL
Y'ALL are appropriating mah suthern culcher! Ahm gonna report choo, y'all!

"im gay"

We should be hidden from their eyes,
Being but holy shows
And bodies broken like a thorn
Whereon the bleak north blows,
To think of buried Hector
And that none living knows.
The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They'd sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray;
My arms are like the twisted thorn
And yet there beauty lay;
The first of all the tribe lay there
And did such pleasure take --
She who had brought great Hector down
And put all Troy to wreck --
That she cried into this ear,
'Strike me if I shriek.'

Be secret and take defeat
From any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honor bred, with one
Who were it proved he lies
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbors' eyes;
Bred to a harder thing
Than Triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
Whereon mad fingers play
Amid a place of stone,
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.

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>>8641596
>english teacher

heh. heh heh. heh heh heh.

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>>8644796
THIS. IS. ONE. OF. MY. FAVS. YOU. ARE. MY. HOMEBOY.

>>8645680

You are a scholar and gentleman.

>>8641596
Nice Fry and Laurie quote, faggot.

But what if excess of love bewildered them till they died?

and

My country is Kiltartan Cross
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor