Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Mystery of death Death Man and animals

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

Death

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Death." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Macmillan and Company, 1933, I. 1.

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It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

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Medium
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1933 1930s 20th century
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Original Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." Scribner's Magazine, Mar. 1933.

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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Treatise
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Italian
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Original Citation

Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.

Current Citation

Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.