William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

William Butler Yeats

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• I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Myth
  • Fancy