Famous quotes containing the words william butler yeats, butler yeats, william butler, butler and/or yeats:
“By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Toil and grow rich,
What’s that but to lie
With a foul witch...?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““... So it’s plain to be discerned
That the shades of holy men
Who have failed, being weak of will,
Pass the Door of Birth again,
And are plagued by crowds, until
They’ve passion to escape.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Cast your mind on other days
That we in coming days may be
Still the indomitable Irishry.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“And God would bid His warfare cease,
Saying all things were well;
And softly make a rosy peace,
A peace of Heaven with Hell.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)