Famous quotes containing the words william butler yeats, butler yeats, william butler, butler and/or yeats:
“A drunkard is a dead man
And all dead men are drunk.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“White woman with numberless dreams,
I bring you my passionate rhyme.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“But where is laid the sailor John
That so many lands had known,
Quiet lands or unquiet seas
Where the Indians trade or Japanese?
He never found his rest ashore,
Moping for one voyage more.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Between extremities
Man runs his course;
A brand, or flaming breath,
Comes to destroy
All those antinomies
Of day and night....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)