William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He compiled the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.
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W. B. Yeats
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William Yeats
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W.B. Yeats
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WBY
And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.
"It was the dream itself enchanted me: Character isolated by a deed To engross the present and dominate memory. Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
[from "The Circus Animals' Desertion"]"
What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade of grass.
