Butler Yeats

Butler Yeats may refer to:

  • Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957), Irish artist
  • John Butler Yeats (1839-1922), Irish artist
  • William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet and dramatist
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Famous quotes by butler yeats:

    Let the new faces play what tricks they will
    In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,
    Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,
    The living seem more shadowy than they.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
    The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
    The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,
    Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
    Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
    Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
    It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Though I have locked my gate on them
    I pity all the young,
    I know what devil’s trade they learn
    From those they live among,
    Their drink, their pitch and toss by day,
    Their robbery by night....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I saw, before I had well finished,
    All suddenly mount
    And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
    Upon their clamorous wings.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)