"In dreams begin responsibilities"

[ultraviolet299]

This line from Acrobat is actually taken from a poem by W.B. Yeats. I just came across this today and thought it to be striking. I also remember reading "Dont let the bastards grind you down" in a Margaret Atwood novel called The handmaid's Tale.

 

[daisybean]

Don't let the Bastards grind you down--was actually started by some military general and I can't remember his name....

Basically he bastardized Latin by saying Illegitimis nil carborundum...which is grammatically wrong....when literally translated, is nonsense.

 

[hippy]

This line from Acrobat is actually taken from a poem by W.B. Yeats.

Which poem?

 

[scatteroflight]

I'm not sure it's actually in a Yeats poem. It is quoted at the start of his collection of poetry called Responsibilities, and I believe it is credited as being from "an old Irish play." I don't THINK it's in an actual poem but I could be wrong.

Yeats is far and away my favourite poet

 

[hippy]

Yeats is far and away my favourite poet

He's among my favorites too

We just got done doing an intensive month-long study of his works in my Irish Lit class... it was a blast!