Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
    And even old men’s eyes grew dim, this hand alone,
    Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place
    Babbling of fallen majesty, records what’s gone.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Bodies of holy men and women exude
    Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
    But under heavy loads of trampled clay
    Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
    Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    A doll in the doll-maker’s house
    Looks at the cradle and bawls:
    “That is an insult to us.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)