Famous quotes containing the words william butler yeats, butler yeats, william butler, butler and/or yeats:
“There’s not a woman turns her face
Upon a broken tree,
And yet the beauties that I loved
Are in my memory....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“What cared Duke Ercole, that bid
His mummers to the market-place,
What th’ onion-sellers thought or did
So that his Plautus set the pace
For the Italian comedies?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
And Usna’s children died.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“For all a rhetorician’s rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)