Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love’s despair
To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.”
—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)