Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    I know that Quiet
    Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
    Among pigeons and bees, while the Great Archer,
    Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
    A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    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)

    Now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)