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Unread 01-21-2008, 12:17 PM
John Hutchcraft John Hutchcraft is offline
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Hi, all. I have in mind a quote from Yeats that says something to the effect of, a poem should click shut at the end like the top of a well made box.

A Google search on "yeats poem click shut box" yields numerous versions of the phrase (many of them differing from each other, most of them in quotation marks) but none of the links that I've seen have cited where Yeats said this, and without that info it's hard to tell what the actual quote is.

Anyway, I'm planning to use the quotation in an essay I'm writing and I'd like to cite chapter and verse when I do it. Does anybody know from whence the quotation comes, and what Yeats really said?

Any help would be much obliged.
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