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I said 'a line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.'
William Butler Yeats
Adam's Curse

Better go down to your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together
Is to work harder than all these.
William Butler Yeats
Adam's Curse

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we tell the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats
Among School Children.

Only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.
William Butler Yeats
Ann Gregory

The unpurged images of day recede;
The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed.
William Butler Yeats
Byzantium

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins.
William Butler Yeats
Byzantium

Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
William Butler Yeats
Byzantium

The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
William Butler Yeats
The Choice

Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
The Circus Animals' Desertion

There's more enterprise
In walking naked.
William Butler Yeats
A Coat

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W. B. Yeats: Irish Poet, Dramatist. Born 1865. Died 1939. Nobel Literature Prize 1923.