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> [Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-johnson/yeats-you-need-ten-years-in-the-library-but-i-have-need-of-ten-years/)

[Lionel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-johnson/)

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## More by Lionel Johnson

> [Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-johnson/sombre-and-rich-the-skies-great-glooms-and-starry-plains-gently-the/)

[Lionel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-johnson/)

> [“Come! our world is done: For all the witchery of the world is fled, And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-johnson/come-our-world-is-done-for-all-the-witchery-of-the-world-is-fled-and/)

[Lionel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-johnson/)

> [Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-johnson/yeats-you-need-ten-years-in-the-library-but-i-have-need-of-ten-years/)

[Lionel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-johnson/)

> [“While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-johnson/while-death-and-darkness-girdle-me-i-grope-for-immortality/)

[Lionel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-johnson/)

> [Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-johnson/yet-when-the-city-sleeps-when-all-the-cries-are-still-the-stars-and/)

[Lionel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-johnson/)

> [“Mine is the sultry sunset when the skies Tremble with strange, intolerable thunder: And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyes Draw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-johnson/mine-is-the-sultry-sunset-when-the-skies-tremble-with-strange/)

[Lionel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-johnson/)

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