Blood Return

Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or return:

    “And no one knows what’s yet to come.
    For Patrick Pearse had said
    That in every generation
    Must Ireland’s blood be shed.
    From mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Our needs hourly
    Climb and return like angels.
    Unclosing like a hand,
    You give for ever.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)