We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal… - William Butler Yeats

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We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He compiled the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

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Alternative Names: W. B. Yeats • William Yeats • W.B. Yeats • WBY

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