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" O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance? "

W.B. Yeats , The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats


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W.B. Yeats quote : O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,<br />Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?<br />O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,<br />How can we know the dancer from the dance?