| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 66511 |
| QUOTATION: | Irish poets, learn your trade, Sing whatever is well made, Scorn the sort now growing up All out of shape from toe to top. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Butler Yeats (18651939), Irish poet and playwright. Under Ben Bulben, sct. 5, Last Poems (1939).
Written five months before Yeatss death. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Yeats Collection. |
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