William Butler Yeats Quotes

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

William Butler Yeats

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• I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Death
  • Opinion
  • Serious