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"All the stream that's roaring by
Came out of a needle's eye;
Things unborn, things that are gone,
From needle's eye still goad it on".

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. Read more