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William Butler Yeats Quotes
«Time drops in decay,Like a candle burnt out,And the mountains and woodsHave their day, have their day;»
«Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!»
«When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.»
«But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Dreams,
Poverty
| Keywords:
softly, spread, tread-softly, tread, tread on, very softly
«How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Heart,
Relationships
| Keywords:
and how, far and away, The First Kiss
«Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.»
«Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Anarchy
| Keywords:
anarchy, bad blood, center, ceremony, conviction, dimmed, dimming, dims, drowned, fall apart, innocence, intensities, intensity, loosed, passionate, The Anarchy, The Center, Things Fall Apart, tide