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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
Beneath
Dust
Exists
Feet
Bits
True
Earth
Everything

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