Yeats

Famous quotes containing the word yeats:

    “I am of Ireland,
    And the Holy Land of Ireland,
    And time runs on,” cried she.
    “Come out of charity
    And dance with me in Ireland.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    There was a green branch hung with many a bell
    When her own people ruled this tragic Eire;
    And from its murmuring greenness, calm of Faery,
    A Druid kindness, on all hearers fell.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “... Can poet’s thought
    That springs from body and in body falls
    Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
    Now bathing lily leaf and fish’s scale,
    Be mimicry?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)