Monday, January 28, 2008

William Butler Yeats died today – 69 years ago

English poet William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland.



He said, “Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry." [And such poetry it is.]... Mr. Yeats died in 1939 in Menton, France.

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