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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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I summon to the winding ancient stair Set all your mind upon the steep ascent
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Locke sank into a swoon The Garden died God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.
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