William Butler Yeats

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    Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    All dreams of the soul
    End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    But when his horse had put its hoof
    Into a rabbit hole
    He dropped upon his head and died.
    His lady saw it all
    And dropped and died thereon, for she
    Loved him with her soul.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)