William Butler Yeats’ epitaph that he wrote for himself was:
“Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!”
The epitaph appears on Yeats’s tombstone in Drum-cliff churchyard under a mountain called Ben Bulben in County Sligo, Ireland, just as Yeats wrote in his poem “Under Ben Bulben” (1939).
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