Famous quotes containing the words butler yeats, william butler, butler and/or yeats:
“I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;
Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I shall not cease to bless because
I lay about me with the taws
That night and morning I may thrash
Greek Alexander from my flesh,
Augustus Caesar, and after these
That great rogue Alcibiades.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“To himself every one is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“I heard the old, old men say,
“All that’s beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)