“It is not that I have accomplished too few of my plans, for I am not
ambitious; but when I think of all the books I have read, and of the
wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to
parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life
weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for
something that never happens.”
– Yeats, Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, 1914 (He was 49 that year)
