The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8)

book is closed we have had our energies enriched, for we have been in

the mid-current. We have never seen anything Odysseus could not have seen while his thought was of the Cyclops, or Achilles when Briseis moved him to desire. In the heart of the greatest periods there is something careless and sudden in all habitual moods though not in their expression, because these moods are a c...