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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

William Butler Yeats
Dream, Reality, Unseen
Rebecca Pauline Christine Brugsma, William Butler Yeats (1933). “The Beginnings of the Irish Revival ...”

Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

William Butler Yeats
Reality, Glasses, Mirrors
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.139, Penguin

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

William Butler Yeats
Mother, Moon, Reality
William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

William Butler Yeats
Reality, Wind, Broken
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.161, Wordsworth Editions

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