Poem by William Butler Yeats
second stanza:
Then nowise worship dusty deeds,
Nor seek, for this is also sooth,
To hunger fiercely after truths,
Lest all thy toiling only breeds
New dreams, new dreams: there
is no truth
Saving in thine own heart. Seek, then,
No learning from the starry men,
Who follow with the optic glass
The whirring ways of stars that pass -
Seek, then, for this is also sooth,
No word of theirs - the cold star-bane
has cloven and rent their hearts in twain
And dead is all their human truth.
quoted in part in The Theory of Everything (2014) feature film
by the character Jane at the "Cambridge May Ball" at an outdoors
fireworks celebratory scene . . .
No comments:
Post a Comment