O, who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Tired heart The heart

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

A Song

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, W. B. "A Song." The Wild Swans at Coole. Macmillan, 1919.

Current Citation

Yeats, W. B. "A Song." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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W.B. Yeats
Source
The Second Coming
Medium
Poem
Language
English
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.

Another quote from the 1910s

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

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Topic
Existential solitude Loneliness

Author

Joseph Conrad
Source
Under Western Eyes
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1911 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Another quote from 1919

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet.

Hugh Keough

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Topic
Winners and losers

Author

Hugh Keough
Language
English
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Keough, Hugh. Quoted in Collier's. Feb. 1919.