Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“Better to smile on all that smile, and show
There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
All night’s fathomless wisdom come,
That I had shorn my locks away
And laid them on Love’s lettered tomb:
But something bore them out of sight
In a great tumult of the air.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

““And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)