1 There is a form of Mask or Image that comes from life and is fated, but there is a form that is chosen.

1 Robert Gregory painted the Burren Hills and thereby found what promised to grow into a great style, but he had hardly found it before he was killed. His few finished pictures, so full of austerity and sweetness, should find their way into Irish public galleries. 1924.

1 When writing this essay I did not see how complete must be the antithesis between man and Daimon. The repose of man is the choice of the Daimon, and the repose of the Daimon the choice of man; and what I have called man’s terrestrial state the Daimon’s condition of fire. I might have seen this, as it all follows from the words written by the beggar in The Hour-Glass upon the walls of Babylon. 1924.

1 Quoted by Pierre Duhem in Le Système du monde, vol. i, page 75.

1 A similar circular movement fundamental in the works of Giovanni Gentile is, I read somewhere, the half-conscious foundation of the political thought of modern Italy. Individuals and classes complete their personality and then sink back to enrich the mass. Government must, it is held, because all good things have been created by class war, recognise that class war though it may be regulated must never end. It is the old saying of Heraclitus, “War is God of all, and Father of all, some it has made Gods and some men, some bond and some free,” and the converse of Marxian Socialism.

1 The Four Faculties somewhat resemble the four moments to which Croce has dedicated four books; that the resemblance is not closer is because Croce makes little use of antithesis and antinomy.

1 Ballylee Castle, or Thoor Ballylee, as I have named it to escape from the too magnificent word ‘castle,’ is now my property, and 1 spend my summers or some part of them there. (1924.)

1 A ‘pattern,’ or ‘patron,’ is a festival in honour of a saint.

1 These words were used as an evocation in Windsor Forest by Lilly, the astrologer. (1924.)

1 The people and faeries in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high. The old Mayo woman I so often quote thinks that it is something in our eyes that makes them seem big or little.

2 The word ‘trance’ gives the wrong impression. I had learned from MacGregor Mathers and his pupils to so suspend the will that the imagination moved of itself. The girl was, however, fully entranced, and the man so affected by her that he heard the children’s voices as if with his physical ears. On two occasions, later on, her trance so affected me that I also heard or saw some part of what she did as if with physical eyes and ears (1924).

1 Preface to At the Hawk’s Well (1917), in The Plays, ed. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark (New York: Scribner, 2001), p. 690. The friends were Lady Gregory and John Millington Synge.

2 The Bounty of Sweden (1924), in Autobiographies, ed. William H. O’Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald (New York: Scribner, 1999), p. 410.

1 As Yeats noted in the Preface to The Trembling of the Veil, “Except in one or two trivial details, where I have the warrant of old friendship, I have not, without permission, quoted conversation or described occurrence from the private life of named or recognizable living persons” (Autobiographies, p. III).