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" ...
Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. "

W.B. Yeats


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W.B. Yeats quote : ...<br />Those masterful images because complete<br />Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?<br />A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,<br />Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,<br />Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut<br />Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,<br />I must lie down where all the ladders start<br />In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.