Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

““He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

““All day long from mid-day
We have talked in the one place,
All day long from shadowless noon
We have gone round and round
In the narrow theme of love
Like an old horse in a pound.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)