Quotes Tagged With :yeats

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's....

He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts....

...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under....

What can be explained is not poetry.

Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable....

An Irish Airman foresees his DeathI Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; ....

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?O body swayed to music,....