New Thematic Key

Looks like William Butler Yeats will have a strong thematic role in Once More, With Feeling. Found a couple of his poems, and really liked them. Strong lyric tendencies, while still being kind of modern.

The ones I'm definitely using are "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death":

"I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above:
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love:
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind,
In balance with this life, this death."

Also, I'll probably use his epitaph:

"Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!"

I may also try to work in a Latin quote that adorned timepieces and sundials:

"Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat." All hours wound, the last kills.

Also, take a look at this picture of Yeats!