Birney/decline

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or decline:

“Unreal, tall as a myth,”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)