We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy. - William Butler Yeats

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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as
Tragedy.

William Butler Yeats

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About William Butler Yeats

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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But he heard high up in the air
A piper piping away,
And never was piping so sad,
And never was piping so gay.

Supernatural Songs, IX, The Four Ages of Man

All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it