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

— W. B. Yeats · Friendship quote

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. — W. B. Yeats quote card

Poet · 1865 – 1939

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and a driving force of the Irish literary revival, co-founding Dublin's Abbey Theatre. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and poems such as The Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium rank among the greatest of the 20th century.

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