Famous quotes containing the words william butler yeats, butler yeats, william butler, butler and/or yeats:
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all ... like an opera.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“What cared Duke Ercole, that bid
His mummers to the market-place,
What th’ onion-sellers thought or did
So that his Plautus set the pace
For the Italian comedies?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Between extremities
Man runs his course;
A brand, or flaming breath,
Comes to destroy
All those antinomies
Of day and night....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)