“We are but critics, or but half create,
Timid, entangled, empty and abashed,
Lacking the countenance of our friends.”

— W.B. Yeats

Ego Dominus Tuus http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1478/, st. 4 The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) Context: We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create, Timid, entangled, empty and abashed, Lacking the countenance of our friends.

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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