Avignon/peopleborn or Died in Avignon

Famous quotes containing the words avignon and/or died:

    “Force is my lot and not pink-clustered
    Roma ni Avignon ni Leyden,
    And cold, my element. Death is my
    Master and, without light, I dwell.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I say that Roger Casement
    Did what he had to do,
    He died upon the gallows
    But that is nothing new.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)