William Butler Yeats's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

In the record

William Butler Yeats ( YAYTS; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. The birth-card coordinate for June 13 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1923 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1923 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation

The 4 of Diamonds coordinate

William Butler Yeats's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on William Butler Yeats. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

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William Butler Yeats in the public record

He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland. His father practised law and was a portrait painter. He was educated in Dublin and London and spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. While in London he became part of the Irish literary revival. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats, William Wordsworth, William Blake and many more.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article W. B. Yeats (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about William Butler Yeats, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the end of the 19th century.

Paired on shared wording: lasting, work.

Also on the record

1. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the end of the 19th century.
2. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
3. From 1900 his poetry became more rooted in the physical world, realistic and politicised.
4. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life.

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FAQ

What is William Butler Yeats's birth card?

The 4 of Diamonds. June 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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Where do William Butler Yeats's dates come from?

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