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  • I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Life Quotes , Ambition Quotes
  • The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Boys Quotes