Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

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

    “Being wakeful for her sake,
    Remembering what she had,
    What eagle look still shows,
    While up from my heart’s root
    So great a sweetness flows
    I shake from head to foot.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “O Patrick! for a hundred years
    The gentle Niamh was my wife;
    But now two things devour my life;
    The things that most of all I hate:
    Fasting and prayers.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)