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William Butler Yeats Quotes

William Butler Yeats quote: "We had fed the heart on fantasies, / The heart’s grown brutal..."

We had fed the heart on fantasies, / The heart’s grown brutal from the fare."

(Meditations in Time of Civil War)

William Butler Yeats

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