William Butler Yeats Quote

My Soul. Why should the imagination of a man
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war?
Think of ancestral night that can,
If but imagination scorn the earth
And intellect is wandering
To this and that and t'other thing,
Deliver from the crime of death and birth.

I, st. 3 - The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) - A Dialogue of Self and Soul