All perform their tragic play, There struts Hamlet, there is Lear, That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia. - William Butler Yeats

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All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia.

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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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I am content to follow to its source
Every event in action or in thought;
Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot! When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blest.
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