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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
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"Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports."

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"The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen."

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"That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!"

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