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William Butler Yeats Quotes about Fashion

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It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

William Butler Yeats
Fashion, Passion, Men
William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

William Butler Yeats
Fashion, Song, Loss
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

William Butler Yeats
Death, Fashion, Prayer
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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