Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    “I bend my body to the spade
    Or grope with a dirty hand.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “What made the drapery glisten so?
    Not a man but Delacroix.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “While man can still his body keep
    Wine or love drug him to sleep,
    Waking he thanks the Lord that he
    Has body and its stupidity....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)