“I would be — for no knowledge is worth a straw —
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.”

—  W.B. Yeats

The Dawn http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1612/
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Context: I would be ignorant as the dawn
That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach
Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;
I would be — for no knowledge is worth a straw —
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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