Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
    Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
    My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    They have gone about the world like wind,
    But little time had they to pray
    For whom the hangman’s rope was spun,
    And what, God help us, could they save?
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Money is good and a girl might be better,
    No matter what happens and who takes the fall,
    But a good strong cause”Mthe rope gave a jerk there,
    No more sang he, for his throat was too small;
    But he kicked before he died,
    He did it out of pride.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)