William Butler Yeats — "I have been writing a book on spiritism for some years."

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction; w…"

"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work."

"Republics, Kingdoms, Soviets, Corporate States, Parliaments, are trash. [...] These men, whether six or six thousand, are the core of Ireland, are Ireland itself."

"I have always been attracted to the abnormal."

"The world is a much more spiritual place than we imagine, and a much more material one too."