Subterranean Land

Famous quotes containing the words subterranean and/or land:

    “So this is the subterranean life.
    If it can’t be conjugated onto us, what good is it?
    What need for purists when the demotic is built to last,
    To outlast us, and no dialect hears us?”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    ““I am of Ireland,
    And the Holy Land of Ireland,
    And time runs on,” cried she.
    “Come out of charity
    And dance with me in Ireland.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)