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Irish Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
- Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
- An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do…
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