William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

William Butler Yeats

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• I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

  

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