• While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

    William Butler Yeats: While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy.
    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.161, Wordsworth Editions