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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
Though
Tragedy
Wrought
Heaven
Scene
Blazing
Upon
Hundred
Inch
Rambles
Cannot
Thousand
Stages
Uttermost
Grow
Inches
Rages
Stage
Scenes
Lear
Head
Drop
Ounce
Grows
Rage
Hamlet

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