A-Z Blogging Challenge "Y"

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As a very young girl I lived with my paternal grandmother for three formative years. Being an enthusiastic teacher and lover of words, she invariably had quotations written all over the house... literally. On the backs of cupboard doors, on calendars, napkins or wherever she happened to be.  With this in mind I am finding the authors, in alphabetical sequence, of many of her favorite quotations and am adding some of those that are special to my family as well.  Hope you enjoy!




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William Butler Yeats ( 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee  described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Being a new blogger, this  Yeats quote is  my salute to those I have already "met" and those that I hope to "meet"!!

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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 Neil Percival Young, (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Sills, and Richie Furay , and later joined  Crosby ,Stills &  Nash  as a fourth member in 1969. He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.

 As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more. 
 

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.