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Why should the imagination of a man
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war?
- William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. A Dialogue of Self and Soul (l. 17–19). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.

Categories: Imagination, Memory

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