Famous quotes containing the words butler yeats, william butler, butler and/or yeats:
“upon these maxims meditate:
All women dote upon an idle man
Although their children need a rich estate;
No man has ever lived that had enough
Of childrens gratitude or womans love.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“All day Id looked in the face
What I had hoped twould be
To write for my own race
And the reality;”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Man is Gods highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoed
Pale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky,
When the sun looked out of his golden hood?
O that none ever loved but you and I!”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)