“I have found nothing half so good
As my long-planned half solitude,
Where I can sit up half the night
With some friend that has the wit
Not to allow his looks to tell
When I am unintelligible.”

— W.B. Yeats

The Apparitions, st. 2
Last Poems (1936-1939)

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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