William Butler Yeats Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939
Birthday: June 13
Death: January 28
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.
source: William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
topic: Life, Ambition, Lakes, Fleet Street, Shop Windows, Free Life
