Young Men

Famous quotes containing the words young men, young and/or men:

    “young men, tossing on their beds,
    Rhymed out in love’s despair
    To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
    But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The children are all crying in their pens
    and the surf carries their cries away.
    They are old men who have seen too much,
    their mouths are full of dirty clothes,
    the tongues poverty, tears like pus.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)