Powers

Famous quotes containing the word powers:

    “The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows
    Have pulled the Immortal Rose;
    And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept,
    The Polar Dragon slept,
    His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
    With your harmonious choir
    Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
    That my old care may cease....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)