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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
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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