Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“I went out alone
To sing a song or two,
My fancy on a man,
And you know who.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Nor the tame will, nor timid brain,
Nor heavy knitting of the brow
Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly limb
And threw him up to laugh on the bough;
No government appointed him.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)