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Sounds like something that could be from PER AMICA SILENTIA LUNAE, though of course I have no idea. Just guessing. J. --- On Sat, 12/3/11, Paul Green <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Paul Green <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Yeats quote? To: [log in to unmask] Date: Saturday, 12 March, 2011, 11:18 I am haunted - well, fairly spooked - by a sentence from some old essay(?) by William Butler Yeats. It is something like: "The doctors have told us that our dreams are but phantoms of the night caused by sexual desire; but of what is sexual intercourse the phantom?" If any Irish poets -or anyone - on the list can give me the correct attribution for this, which may be garbled, of course, by the imperfections of my ailing brain, I would be most grateful. The quote might be an epigraph for current work-in-progress/regress.