"For to articulate sweet sounds together Is..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.
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“I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.”
“No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.”
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
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“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.”
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