“Seek out reality, leave things that seem.”

— W.B. Yeats, book The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Source: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/, VII

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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“Seek out reality, leave things that seem.”

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