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  • When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

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    William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

  • Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

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    William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

  • There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.

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    William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

  • Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

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    William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
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William Butler Yeats

  • Born: June 13, 1865
  • Died: January 28, 1939
  • Occupation: Poet
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