Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Why should the imagination of a man
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)