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| 608cee6 | To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away. | fathers mortality death religion god daughters yeats fatherhood | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 766d50a | "Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in 'In Memory of WB Yeats': "You were silly like us." | yeats writers | Christopher Bram |