Famous quotes containing the words william butler yeats, butler yeats, william butler, butler and/or yeats:
““It was the mask engaged your mind,
And after set your heart to beat,
Not what’s behind.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Ah, that Time could touch a form
That could show what Homer’s age
Bred to be a hero’s wage.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There’s keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““If little planned is little sinned
But little need the grave distress.
What’s dying but a second wind?
How but in zig-zag wantonness
Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)