Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    The host is rushing ‘twixt night and day,
    And where is there hope or deed as fair?
    Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
    And Niamh calling Away, come away.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Those banners come to bribe or threaten
    Or whisper that a man’s a fool
    Who when his own right king’s forgotten
    Cares what king sets up his rule.
    If he died long ago
    Why do you dread us so?
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    A drunkard is a dead man
    And all dead men are drunk.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)