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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, playwright, and essayist.
He was born in Dublin in 1865 and died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, in 1939.
He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
His poetry is known for its symbolism, mysticism, and Irish nationalism.
Some of his most famous poems include "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," and "Easter, 1916."
He is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.