“My temptation is quiet.
Here at life’s end
Neither loose imagination,
Nor the mill of the mind
Consuming its rag and bone,
Can make the truth known.”

—  W.B. Yeats

An Acre of Grass http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1438/, st. 2 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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