Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young
And weep because I know all things now:
I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung
The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
Among my leaves in times out of mind....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)