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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)