Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“And cried, ‘Before I am old
I shall have written him one
Poem maybe as cold
And passionate as the dawn.’”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“For even daughters of the swan can share
Something of every paddler’s heritage—”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)