Famous Quotes | Or else I thought her...

Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave.... - William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. “A Bronze Head.”

Categories: Playwright, World, The

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