Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“I heard the old, old men say,
“All that’s beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I grew wild
Even accusing Heaven because
It had set down among its laws:
Nothing that we love over-much
Is ponderable to our touch.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“John Bull has gone to India
And all must pay him heed
For histories are there to prove
That none of another breed
Has had a like inheritance,
Or sucked suck milk as he....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)