"I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo……" — William Butler Yeats

I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of… - William Butler Yeats

"I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree."

— William Butler Yeats

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