Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream. - William Butler Yeats

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Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

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About William Butler Yeats

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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Alternative Names: W. B. Yeats • William Yeats • W.B. Yeats • WBY
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