Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“Between extremities
Man runs his course;
A brand, or flaming breath,
Comes to destroy
All those antinomies
Of day and night....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“When the swan must fix his eye
Upon a fading gleam,
Float out upon a long
Last reach of glittering stream
And there sing his last song.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)