Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    I broke my heart in two
    So hard I struck.
    What matter? for I know
    That out of rock,
    Out of a desolate source,
    Love leaps upon its course.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play,
    Though you glow and you glance, though you purr and you dart;
    In the Junes that were warmer than these are, the waves were more gay,
    When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    When my arms wrap you round I press
    My heart upon the loveliness
    That has long faded from the world....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)