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“I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”

— William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919; "His Phoenix"

About William Butler Yeats

1865 – 1939

Irish poet and Nobel laureate in Literature (1923).

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