Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love's pleasure drives his love away,
The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

The ephemeral

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

Two Songs From a Play

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Tower. Macmillan & Company, 1928.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Wordsworth Editions, 2000.

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Medium
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Time
1920 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Louis Brandeis

Olmstead v. United States

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Topic
Threats to freedom Freedom

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Louis Brandeis
Source
Olmstead v. United States
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Dissenting opinion Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1928 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. Olmstead v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 277, 4 June 1928, pp. 471-485. Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/.