A Quote by William Butler Yeats

The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

William Butler Yeats

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Bitter Crafty Gets Godly Grave Land Nobody Old Tongue Wise

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William Butler Yeats
Irish - Poet
June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.

William Butler Yeats

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Maria Doyle Kennedy

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Inez Haynes Irwin

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune. I wanted to write a pretty standard romantic comedy where nobody dies, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets sick.

Camille Perri

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

Gail Collins

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John Steinbeck

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Will Rogers

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Peter Saunders

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