William Butler Yeats

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    May she be granted beauty and yet not
    Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,
    Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
    Being made beautiful overmuch,
    Consider beauty a sufficient end,
    Lose natural kindness
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk
    For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,
    In country shawl or Paris cloak, had put my wits astray,
    And what’s the good of women for all that they can say
    Is fol de rol de rolly O.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The innocent and the beautiful
    Have no enemy but time;
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    Come, let me sing into your ear;
    Those dancing days are gone,
    All that silk and satin gear;
    Crouch upon a stone,
    Wrapping that foul body up
    In as foul a rag....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)