One poet on another

> “Yeats sometimes gave the impression of being even a worse idiot than I am.” —Ezra Pound https://t.co/6QLqxLNCDN — The Paris Review (@parisreview) May 8, 2019 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/1126049600211697665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

The rough beast rises

> "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" A surge in quotes fm Yeats' The Second Coming https://t.co/H6tB8JhPWv & https://t.co/M9bX0HzHs7 — Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) June 9, 2017 [https://twitter.com/michikokakutani/status/873085265991970817]…

When You Are Old

> W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem "When You Are Old" Gets Adapted Into a Beautiful Short Film https://t.co/5xb1ALcbfY pic.twitter.com/zTL3jmp94B [https://t.co/zTL3jmp94B] — Open Culture (@openculture) March 3, 2017 [https://twitter.com/openculture/status/837743383762386945]…

When You Are Old

The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare [http://youtu.be/65CWjdVcBmg] takes a look at aging from the tenth century.…

Under Ben Bulben

An article about literary sites in Ireland [http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/in-ireland-climbing-the-summits-of-the-national-literature/2014/05/29/c93baf96-dd29-11e3-b745-87d39690c5c0_story.html] prompted me to share this image from a postcard that's lived on my desk for more than 20 years.…