W. B. Yeats: And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey. — W. B. Yeats

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

W. B. Yeats

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