O, who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Tired heart The heart

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

A Song

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, W. B. "A Song." The Wild Swans at Coole. Macmillan, 1919.

Current Citation

Yeats, W. B. "A Song." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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W.B. Yeats

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Topic
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Source
The Second Coming
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Truth is the first casualty in war.

Ethel Snowden

Women and War

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Topic
War and truth

Author

Ethel Snowden
Source
Women and War
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Snowden, Ethel. "Women and War." Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association. 1915.

Another quote from 1919

Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

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Topic
Minority rights Freedom

Author

Rosa Luxemburg
Source
The Russian Revolution
Genre
Political literature Historical literature
Language
German
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Russian Revolution." The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism? Trans. Bertram Wolfe. University of Michigan Press, 1961, ch. 6. Originally, Die russische Revolution [The Russian Revolution]. Paul Levi, 1922, ch. 6.