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The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

Book by William Butler Yeats · 4 quotes · Men, Art, Civilisation

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“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”