Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

““Ah, do not mourn,” he said,
“That we are tired, for other loves await us;
Hate on and love through unrepining hours.
Before us lies eternity; our souls
Are love, and a continual farewell.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Their school a crowd, his master solitude;
Through Jonathan Swift’s dark grove he passed, and there
Plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“O what a bursting out there was,
And what a blossoming,
When we had all the summer-time
And she had all the spring!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)