"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all β the colleges I mean β like an opera."
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Letter to Katharine Tynan (25 August 1888)
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William Butler Yeats
1865 β 1939
irischer Lyriker und Dramatiker
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