William Butler Yeats

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    All perform their tragic play,
    There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
    That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia;
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Why should I be dismayed
    Though flame had burned the whole
    World, as it were a coal,
    Now I have seen it weighed
    Against a soul?
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    He made the world to be a grassy road
    Before her wandering feet.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “... To many women I have said “lie still”
    And given everything that a woman needs
    A roof, good clothes, passion, love perhaps
    But never asked for love, should I ask that
    I shall be old indeed.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)