Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    I had a thought for no one’s but your ears:
    That you were beautiful, and that I strove
    To love you in the old high way of love;
    That it had all seemed happy, and yet we’d grown
    As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The women that I picked spoke sweet and low
    And yet gave tongue. “Hound voices” were they all.
    —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)