The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
More Quotes from William Butler Yeats:
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.William Butler Yeats
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.
William Butler Yeats
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
William Butler Yeats
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
William Butler Yeats
If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.
William Butler Yeats
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: God Quotes, World QuotesBased on Keywords: herdsman, oxen, tread
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.
Jessica Hagedorn