Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    “My dear, my dear, I know
    More than another
    What makes your heart beat so;
    Not even your own mother
    Can know it as I know,
    Who broke my heart for her....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.... I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says “there is no wisdom without leisure.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “even
    The bed of love, that in the imagination
    Had seemed to be the giver of all peace,
    Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,
    And as soon finished.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)