Famous Quotes | All that we did, all that we...

All that we did, all that we said or sang
Must come from contact with the soil, from that
Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
We three alone in modern times had brought
Everything down to that sole test again,
Dream of the noble and the beggarman. - William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. “The Municipal Gallery Revisited.”

Categories: Nature, Playwright

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