William Butler Yeats

Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet

Quotes



Irish poets, learn your trade,
Sing whatever is well made.

Under bare Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!
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