Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

“I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“O heart! O heart! if she’d but turn her head,
You’d know the folly of being comforted.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
Pallas Athena in that straight back and arrogant head:
All the Olympians; a thing never known again.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)