Famous Quotes | All know that all the dead in...

All know that all the dead in the world about that place are stuck
And that should mother seek her son she’d have but little luck
Because the fires of Purgatory have ate their shapes away;
I swear to God I questioned them and all they had to say
Was fol de rol de rolly O.
- William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. “The Pilgrim.”

Categories: Afterlife, Death, Playwright

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