Irish Permanent Building

Famous quotes containing the words irish, permanent and/or building:

    “Earth, receive an honoured guest:
    William Yeats is laid to rest.
    Let the Irish vessel lie
    Emptied of its poetry.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.”
    —James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

    “And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
    A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)