Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“A sweetheart from another life floats there
As though she had been forced to linger
From vague distress
Or arrogant loveliness,
Merely to loosen out a tress
Among the starry eddies of her hair....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Things thought too long can be no longer thought
For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth,
And ancient lineaments are blotted out.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

““Because I am mad about women
I am mad about the hills,”
Said that wild old wicked man
Who travels where God wills....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)