Famous quotes containing the words butler yeats, william butler, butler and/or yeats:
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Those banners come to bribe or threaten
Or whisper that a man’s a fool
Who when his own right king’s forgotten
Cares what king sets up his rule.
If he died long ago
Why do you dread us so?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I had wild Jack for a lover;
Though like a road
That men pass over
My body makes no moan
But sings on:
All things remain in God.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)