Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“A passion-driven exultant man sings out
Sentences that he has never thought....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
For hours when all must fade like dew....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Did the kiss of Mother Mary
Put that music in her face?
Yet she goes with footstep wary,
Full of earth’s old timid grace.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)