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Letter "W" » William Butler Yeats Quotes
«I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead»
«The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.»
«And what rough beast, its hour come round at last slouches toward Bethlehem to be born»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Bethlehem, Bethlehem To, come round, slouched, slouches, slouching
«Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.»
«Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence»
«The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
commission, Commission on, legislation, Letter of, The Letter
«An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress»
«I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.»
«You have to die because no soul has passedThe heavenly threshold since you have opened school,But grass grows there, and rust upon the hinge;And they are lonely that must keep the watch.»
«All shuffle there; all cough in ink;All wear the carpet with their shoes;All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbour knows,Lord, what would they sayDid their Catullus walk that way?»
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