When we are high and airy hundreds say
That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,
While those same hundreds mock another day
Because we have made our art of common things...


The Green Helmet, and Other Poems (ed. 1912)

William Butler Yeats Quotes

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we...

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we...

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we...

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we...