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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

William Butler Yeats
Art, Nature, Byzantium
"Sailing to Byzantium" l. 25 (1928)
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make