Burke Wrote

Famous quotes containing the words burke and/or wrote:

“I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare
This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestrail stair;
That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I loved, but woman fell away;
I hid me from her faded fame.
I snatched the sun’s eternal ray
And wrote till earth was but a name.”
—John Clare (1793–1864)