William Butler Yeats Quotes
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
Yeats, William Butler. "The Municipal Gallery Revisited." Last Poems and Two Plays, Cuala Press, 1939, p. 28.
Nixon, not a warm person to even his best friends was not very enthused about the enthusiastic British overtures they were making. Kissinger turned him around with this statement.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.