Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

““I will not be clapped in a hood,
Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,
Now I have learnt to be proud
Hovering over the wood
In the broken mist
Or tumbling cloud.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)