I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

The afterlife Death Life

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

King and No King

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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Source
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 0
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

I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old dad.

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Topic
Oedipal issues Mothers and sons

Author

William Dillon
Source
I Want a Girl
Medium
Song
Language
English
Time
1911 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Dillon, William. I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad). Composed by Harry Von Tilzer. Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., 1911.

Another quote about Life

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

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Topic
Being present Nature of life Life

Author

Allen Saunders
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.