Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“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)

“I am in love
And that is my shame.
What hurts the soul
My soul adores,
No better than beast
Upon all fours.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

““... So it’s plain to be discerned
That the shades of holy men
Who have failed, being weak of will,
Pass the Door of Birth again,
And are plagued by crowds, until
They’ve passion to escape.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)