Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
    Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
    Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    when we have blamed the wind we can blame love....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
    And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
    For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
    With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)