That toil of growing up The ignominy of boyhood the distress Of boyhood changing into man The unfinished man and his pain.
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I said, 'A line will take us hours maybe Yet if it does not seem a moment's though Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Better go down upon your marrow-bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones.'William Butler Yeats
John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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