<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537176" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Apparitions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BECAUSE there is safety in derision<br>I talked about an apparition,<br>I took no trouble to convince,<br>Or seem plausible to a man of sense.<br>Distrustful of thar popular eye<br>Whether it be bold or sly.<br>Fifteen apparitions have I seen;<br>The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have found nothing half so good<br>As my long-planned half solitude,<br>Where I can sit up half the night<br>With some friend that has the wit<br>Not to allow his looks to tell<br>When I am unintelligible.<br>Fifteen apparitions have I seen;<br>The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a man grows old his joy<br>Grows more deep day after day,<br>His empty heart is full at length,<br>But he has need of all that strength<br>Because of the increasing Night<br>That opens her mystery and fright.<br>Fifteen apparitions have I seen;<br>The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Butler+Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537176" data-title="The Apparitions de William Butler Yeats" data-description="BECAUSE there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible to a man of sense. Distrustful of thar popular eye Whether it be bold or sly. Fifteen apparitions have I seen; The worst a coat upon..."></div> </div> </div>

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