Yeats quote in "The Deal"

S02E09 The DealretroNov 5, 19966 years later2 posts by 2 posters
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Fans identify the Yeats quote from Kramer's birthday card to Elaine as being from "The Municipal Gallery Revisited," with discussion of how the writers modified the original lines.

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J.R. Allen

In the episode "The Deal", Kramer's birthday card to Elaine has a quote by Yeats in it. Can someone either tell me the quote or what poem it's from? Thanks...

J.R. Allen [email] http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~jrallen/ "to be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing

The lines that Kramer cites are the last two lines of the poem called "The Municipal Gallery Revisited."

(It may be Galleries...)

But, the last two lines are as follows:

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."

The writers changed the quote a little bit.

It's a good poem about a life passing and reflection.

pK

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