Great Regulars: The lines of this poem

that are often quoted, and that recall the murderous bombing of a book market, are the first two lines of Yeats's final stanza. They bear repeating:

We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare.

Contrary to the notion of the poet as a dealer in fantasies, while politicians must deal with reality, this poem deplores the brutal fantasies of rhetoric.

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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