William Butler Yeats

Shudder & Sigh

Tamsin Smith | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: William Butler Yeats, Andy Goldsworthy, National Poetry Month, Rivers and Tides, Sculpture, Documentary Review, Arts News
Tamsin Smith

Certainly, there's a crumbling here, a lost limb there, and plenty of poems that remind us of the folly of seeking immortality through hard materials. But I hadn't thought of sculpture as quite so liquid a pleasure before watching Rivers and Tides.

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Giving Thanks -- For the Occupation, For the Intensity, For the Innocence

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Wisconsin, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy, Rolling Stones, Barack Obama, William Butler Yeats, Giving Thanks, Political Discourse, Thanksgiving, Occupy Protests, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

While the Arab Spring showed that people can still accomplish the impossible, our political debate was frozen in corporate cynicism. Now everything has changed. For the U.S., spring came in autumn.

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Sketches of Spain

Tamsin Smith | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Bullfighting, Federico Garcia-Lorca, Aristotle, William Butler Yeats, Duede, Flamenco, Music, Love, Nick Cave, Death, Happiness, Arts News
Tamsin Smith

What makes a good life? Artistotle put in a plug for happiness, though his is a much more disciplined and nuanced use of the phrase. "Happy" -- ubiq...

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Among School Children

Tamsin Smith | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: School Children, Ascap, America SCORES, William Butler Yeats, The Great Unknown, Storytelling, Songwriting, William Blake, Poetry, Culture News
Tamsin Smith

All the songs on this name-your-price collection represent a story-telling collaboration between The Great Unknown and America SCORES schoolchildren from five cities across the country.

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Where Were You When...?

Robert Schwab | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Where Were You When ...?, Osama Bin Laden, William Butler Yeats, Denver News
Robert Schwab

Where were you when you heard Osama bin Laden was dead? I was dancing a jig in front of my TV. And couldn't help but imagine the short lecture Allah ...

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'A Thousand Twangling Instruments'

Tamsin Smith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: W.H. Auden, Dystopia, Brave New World, William Butler Yeats, Aldous Huxley, Shakespeare, Utopia, Poetry, Happiness, Happiness Advice, Being Happy, Finding Happiness, Happiness Tips, Healthy Living News
Tamsin Smith

Suffering is not the opposite of joy -- they are foreground and background. One unfolds and magnifies the other. When a smile can be forged from anguish, then it's a thing of beauty and truth.

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The Ten Best Love Poems Ever Written In Honor Of Valentine's Day 2011

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henri Rousseau, Jennifer Reeves, W.H. Auden, Lisa Adams, Cristina Barroso, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt, Joan Miro, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robinson Jeffers, Andre Breton, Pablo Neruda, Jan Van Eyck, A.E. Housman, Georges Seurat, Slidepollajax, Theodore Roethke, E.E. Cummings, Amedeo Modigliani, Lord Byron, William Butler Yeats, Arts News
James Scarborough

Mindful of Paul Valery's painfully true contention that "Love is being stupid together," how about ten poems and ten paintings that celebrate the art of being stupid together? Come on, just this once.

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John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Islam, Theodore Roosevelt, New America Foundation, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, U.S. Constitution, Domino Theory, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Quaeda, Afghanistan War, Terror Free Tomorroe, Dante, John Kerry, Vietnam War, William Butler Yeats, Fulbright Hearings, Vietnam, Michael Leiter, Predator Drones, Leon Panetta, Politics News
Bruce Fein

John Kerry should re-read his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971, eloquently urging a withdrawal of United States forces from Vietnam, as he contemplates his duty towards Afghanistan.

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Julia the Hindu, and the Pray in Eat Pray Love

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: T.S. Eliot, Yoga, India, Sting, Mary Tyler Moore, Eat Pray Love, Somerset Maugham, Ram Dass, Madonna, Elizabeth Gilbert, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Hindu, The Beatles, Hinduism, J.D. Salinger, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Julia Roberts, William Butler Yeats, Meditation, Eat Pray Love Movie, Transcendental Meditation, Marlon Brando, Thomas Merton, Religion News
Philip Goldberg

The powerful forces of celebrity and popular culture have thrust India's Vedic heritage into the spotlight. All the media attention inspires some to cynicism and others to a genuine spiritual enquiry.

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President Marco Rubio

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Ground Zero Mosque, Marco Rubio, Jeff Greene, Immigration, Kendrick Meek, Charlie Crist, 2016 Election, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, 2012 Election, Florida Senate Race, William Butler Yeats, Fox News, Cubans in Florida, The-Human-Centipede, Republican Party, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

If Marco Rubio wins the Florida Senate seat, he'll instantly become a frontrunner for the Republican vice presidential nomination in 2012.

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Death Threat: The Widening Gyre‏

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Tiller, Alan-Grayson-Threat, Geoge Tiller Murder, Alan-Grayson-Death-Threat, Fl-08, Death Threat, William Butler Yeats, Fox News, Alan Grayson, Dan Gainor, Politics News
Alan Grayson

First I was threatened with assault. Then I was threatened with murder. Do you see how they ratchet up the bullying, and try to cow us?

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Big Brother 12: The 12th Coming

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality TV, Steven Daigle, Survivor, Julie Chen, Big Brother 12 Episode 1, William Butler Yeats, Chi Chi LaRue, Cbs, Big Brother, Big Brother 12, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

It's summertime in Studio City, and CBS has rounded up another group of houseguests to spend a summer trying to outwitless each other, on what is known to some as "Survivor For Shut-Ins," aka, Big Brother: Season 12: The Saboteur.

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Calling Dr. Laura: Old Loves And The Boundaries Of Fidelity

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Eros, Dr Laura Schlessinger, Sexual Conditioning, Email, Midlife Crisis, Marriage Ref, Bach, Marriage, Divorce Rates, Other Women, Courtly Love, Dr. Phil, Fidelity, Old Loves, Troubadors, Oprah, Cyber-Love, E.E. Cummings, Agape, Arrested Development, Internet Porn, D.H. Lawrence, William Butler Yeats, Healthy Living News
Eliezer Sobel

Thankfully, my personal life is not completely dictated by media-based psychology standards, or I'd wind up on Oprah taking the fall for men in mid-life crisis everywhere.

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The Best Lack All Conviction

Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arkansas, Soylent Green, Mark Sanford, Underpants Bomber, John Ensign, Party of No, Dan Krotz, William Butler Yeats, Daniel Krotz, Bookseller, Larry Craig, Barack Obama, Yeats, David Vitter, Berryville, Politics News
Daniel Krotz

President Obama seems to be having a rocky time steering the Ship of State lately. He tacks right, he tacks left; he sails in an ever widening circle. We've been given many explanations for this reality.

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Why Republicans Want to F**k Ronald Reagan

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Scott Brown, J.G. Ballard, Al Gore, Ronald Reagan, Corporate America, William Butler Yeats, Iraq, Health Care Reform, Massachusetts Senate Race, David Mamet, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Ralph Nader, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

There are numerous examples of how the right discards or remolds reality to achieve a political end. Obama and the Democrats need to remember who they're dealing with.

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The Best Lack All Conviction, While the Worst Are Full of Passionate Intensity

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama State of the Union, Daily Show WIth Jon Stewart, Massachusetts Special Election, Health Reform, Nancy Pelosi, William Butler Yeats, President Obama, Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

What is the "revelation" for the Democrats now? Is there a possibility of a "second coming" for the Party and for health reform?

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Phenomenal Photography: Vanity Fair, Steichen and Leibovitz

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Fashion-Photography, Joan Crawford, Edward Steichen, Conde Nast, Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970-1990, Frank Gehry, Vanity Fair, Vogue Magazine, Vanity Fair Magazine, Katharine Hepburn, Julianne Moore, Royal Ontario Museum, Celebrity-Photos, Nicole Kidman, Conde Nast Magazines, William Butler Yeats, Art Gallery of Ontario, Portraits, Hollywood, Annie Leibovitz, Magazines, Style News
Marissa Bronfman

"Vanity Fair Portraits" is the first major exhibition to unite the magazine's historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs.

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Searching for Answers in the Shadow of George Tiller's Murder

Susan J. Demas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michigan Liberal, Abortion, Abortion Murder, George Tiller Killed, Late-Term Abortion, Andrew Sullivan, Abortion Rights, Scott Roeder, Anti-Abortion, George Tiller Murder, Scott Hagerstrom, Pro-Life, Dr. George Tiller, George Tiller, Operation Rescue, Moral Absolutes, Moral Absolutism, Americans for Prosperity, The Atlantic, George Tiller Killing, Partial-Birth Abortion, Pro-Choice, Off the Record, William Butler Yeats, Politics News
Susan J. Demas

Some people know he did the right thing. What I'm not sure of is where that line is, between utter certitude in your beliefs and the willingness to kill for them. On Sunday, it got a lot blurrier.

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Prosecuting Torture: How the Words of Poet WB Yeats Can Help

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pundits, Cable Tv, Obama, O'Reilly, Poetry, Politics, Watergate, Prosecution for Torture, The Second Coming, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Newt Gingrech, Ann Coulter, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Michelle Malkin, Dick Cheney, Joe Scarborough, Sean Hannity, Rush Llimbaugh, Pat Buchanen, William Butler Yeats, Politics News
Lea Lane

The best of us must now show "all conviction" to hold hearings to prosecute those who authorized torture.

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Dreaming On The Edge of Survival

Anne Hill | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Robert Moss, Paul Krugman, Dreams, Poetry, David Byrne, Leonard Cohen, William Butler Yeats, Survival-Tips, Talking Heads, Video, Healthy Living News
Anne Hill

In this time of economic upheaval, how do each of us manage to find the next step, and the next, and the next, to make it through?

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The Poetry Of A Political Speech

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gerald Ford, William Butler Yeats, Barack Obama, Speeches, Politicians, Michelle Obama, George Mcgovern, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

Presidential nomination acceptance speeches surely aim to create great quotes, not to repeat them. So I should have figured that when I went digging ...

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