Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“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)

“I say that Roger Casement
Did what he had to do,
He died upon the gallows
But that is nothing new.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“My chair was nearest to the fire
In every company
That talked of love or politics,
Ere Time transfigured me.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)