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William Butler Yeats on Birthday

1865–1939 Ireland

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.

Last Poems (1936)

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing.

The friends that have it I do wrong
Whenever I remake a song
Should know what issue is at stake,
It is myself that I remake.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams
Into a common light of common hours,
Until old age bring the red flare again.

The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Butler Yeats (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.